Drug Testing for Welfare Health care‚ food stamps‚ child care assistance‚ unemployment‚ cash aid‚ and housing assistance are all forms of welfare in the United States. “In fiscal year 1995‚ federal‚ state‚ and local governments spent about $1.5 trillion on social welfare programs‚ an increase of $69.4 billion (5 percent) from 1994” (Joseph 1). Substance abuse is a major financial burden which “In 1998… cost Americans an estimated $110 billion in expenses and lost revenue” (Lyman and Potter 8)
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Resolved: Should welfare recipients receive drug testing? Since welfare programs started in the 60s‚ a reoccurring pattern has been seen in more cases than one. Fraudulent activity and taking advantage of the system has been happening for way too long in our society. A simple drug test should be administered to welfare recipients if they expect to receive the benefits that are offered to them. If other citizens such as the ones in the working class are held accountable to be administered a drug screening
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A welfare state is a social concept in which the government accepts accountability for the prosperity of natives by ensuring that individuals have access to basic resources such as housing‚ health care‚ education‚ and employment. Prompting the rule that administrative advantages are a benefit and not a privilege. Until the Great Depression state and local governments bore some obligation regarding welfare. For the most part‚ such help was negligible. In the best-case scenario‚ with church and volunteer
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debate is if animal testing should remain legal or be banned. Did you know that Europe‚ which is the world’s biggest cosmetic producer‚ banned animal testing for cosmetics (11 Facts About Animal Testing)? Sure‚ animal testing has made some great medical breakthroughs like insulin. There are also downfalls to animal testing. One example is that the experimenters are torturing the animals and the test subjects are painfully tested on. These reasons show that animal testing should be banned‚ it
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Should Drug Testing Be Mandatory For Welfare Recipients? Florida Governor Rick Scott made plans to test all welfare recipients to see if they are using drugs before they can receive payments is hardly saving the state any money‚ according to recent reports. At $30 per test‚ the state paid $28‚800 in drug test reimbursements (960 reimbursements at $30 each‚ since about 2 percent also didn’t finish the application process) for those who did pass‚ while saving themselves about $66‚000 in payments
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Animal Testing: a Vital Necessity In order to save people’s lives animal testing is necessary. 43% of adults in the United States say they are against animal testing (Alas). Yet most the adults who say they are against animal testing take medicine and use products that all have been tested on animals. The advances made from animal testing have increased our biomedical technology significantly. Almost every breakthrough we have had has some part of animal testing. Without animal testing the alternate
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Animal Testing is the force experimentation on animals against their free will‚ usually leading to pain‚ discomfort‚ or malnourishment. An average of 115 million animals every year are tested for scientific and commercial experiments (crueltyfreeinternational.org). These tests are not only inhumane‚ but the experiments are also unreliable‚ unnecessary‚ and not safe. The testing of animals has been around for centuries‚ using animals‚ in hope to find a cure for human diseases. According to procon
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For students to improve their educational abilities‚ it will take a lot of practice. The society relies heavily on standardized testing on whether students will have the opportunities for advancement‚ but the expectation of improvements have not been visible for school records. The education board had a meeting‚ and after a serious debate on ways to improve education‚ Brookings Institution
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Drug testing is a very controversial issue in today society. It causes uproar from the students and the workers across America because they feel that it is an infringement of their rights. I believe that it is an infringement of a person’s right to be tested of drugs just out of the blue and without just cause. I also believe that a person should be tested if they injure themselves or cause an injury to someone else on the job because then the employer is not held accountable or responsible for
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The Animal Welfare Act was first first passed in 1876 in Britain and titled “the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876”. It was created to approve all animals used in research. Since there were initiatives to protect laboratory animals it took many years until there was a national law to protect laboratory animals in the U.S. There were multiple numbers of states that passes anti-cruelty laws between 1828 and 1898 in the U.S. and fourteen states exempted animal experiments. There were also a number of bills
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