Pros and Cons of Drug Testing Welfare Recipients The argument of whether those who wish to receive or are receiving welfare‚ unemployment benefits or food stamps should be drug tested. There is a popular theory believing that having recipients tested will save taxpayers money. Researching this subject revealed surprising facts and insight of both accounts. Value of Facts The main question needing asked if the drug testing costs outweigh the possible welfare program savings. My research findings
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College Prep English III 1 April 2013 Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Welfare began during the great depression in the 1930’s then‚ just like now‚ there were many families that needed help from the government‚ and that is why they introduced welfare. In our world today there is social welfare‚ corporate welfare‚ child welfare‚ and many others that one can apply for. Other welfare programs‚ such as TANF and WIC‚ have truly made a difference in the lives of American families. Families are kept together
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Speech 101 December 4‚ 2012 · General Purpose: To persuade · Specific Purpose Statement: Today I will hope to persuade you why I feel the Euthanizing of animals can be wrong. · Central Idea: Today I will hope to persuade you in why I feel euthanasia is wrong‚ I will tell you about the advantages of euthanasia‚ next I will tell you about the circumstances in which I am against euthanasia and solutions to how I feel we can help euthanasia rates drop. · Organizational Structure Used: Topical Order
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they were down to their last three dollars‚ they would still choose to get a beer. Drinking alcohol looks like it almost took over the world but we still have a chance to stop it. All we have to do is make it illegal to use and purchase the liquid drug called alcohol. The reasons why I say this is because alcohol is very addictive‚ it causes health problems‚ and because it affects people’s judgment. A person who suffers from alcoholism becomes obsessed with alcohol and feels as though they have
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or not schools should be able to drug test their students. One side says there should be drug testing and one side says there should not be any. The use of drug testing is to reduce the use of drugs by students. Everyone wants students to not be using drugs but one side drug testing will be an effective way to reduce it but the other side says there is other ways in which to do this. “Schools that have adopted random student drug testing seek to decrease drug use among students via two routes
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Forced Drug Testing Drug testing is a way to test individuals for the use of any drug in their body. There is a downfall of drug testing because it’s not completely accurate‚ considering some drugs stay in your system longer than others. So an individual could have used a drug 1 week prior to when they got tested. But if a person isn’t suppose to use drugs at all‚ then it shouldn’t matter how long the drugs are in their system because they know not to use. There are ups and downs to pretrial
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In response to the increasing number‚ in April of 1989‚ MUSC instituted a drug testing policy. Women who came into MUSC that presented suspicion of drug use were subjected to the drug screenings. If the tests were positive‚ it was reported to police and the women were subsequently arrested. MUSC worked in conjunction with the Solicitor for Charleston in the prosecution of mothers whose children tested positive for drugs at birth. Petitioners were
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states to distribute. States are allowed some flexibility in how they chose to distribute these funds. There has been a recent movement among states to implement drug testing for applicants and recipients to receive this assistance. Many people see this as a violation of their 4th amendment rights. The ideology behind drug testing is to weed out misuse of funds by recipients‚ thus alleviating budgetary concerns in hard economic times. Are there other means of easing budgetary issues without
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there have been actions made to start drug testing recipients of welfare‚ potentially altering the whole concept of welfare. Although‚ only 3 states‚ as of now‚ have actually made it a law‚ “getting welfare and food stamps may become tougher as twenty three states around the country seek to adopt stricter laws that would require public aid recipients to take drug tests.” (Alcindor‚ 2012). The act of drug testing welfare recipients would be just that‚ drug testing recipients. Many of the states considering
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should undergo mandatory drug testing. There are many pros and cons of drug testing people on welfare. According to State Drug Testing Requirements for Welfare Recipients‚ by Abby E. Schaberg that drug testing people who want to apply for welfare would be considered as an unreasonable search and therefore violate the Fourth Amendment. However‚ the constitution of such laws has yet to be definitively determined. Legislatures in at least 28 states are considering drug testing applicants or recipients
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