Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients In the last couple years there has been a debate weather to drug test welfare recipiants. As of March 28‚ 2013‚ at least 29 states have proposed legislation requiring some form of drug testing or screening for public assistance recipients in 2013. At least seven states including: Arizona‚ Florida‚ Georgia‚ Missouri‚ Oklahoma‚ Tennessee and Utah‚ have passed legislation regarding drug testing or screening for public assistance
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There are many people that are against welfare recipients to get a drug test and there are others that are for it. There two sides of the story why people do and don’t. Social Welfare is a program that provides assistance to needy individuals and families. The type and amount of welfare available to individuals and families vary for country‚ state or region(dictionary). Many people say that they shouldn’t do it because of the people that benefit from it are mostly children’s. Many say that if they
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of the American population on welfare‚ the government annually spends about 132 billion dollars on welfare‚ which does not include either food stamps or unemployment insurance.” (DOHHS‚ 2012). Since the 1930s‚ many forms of welfare have been assisting the needy families and less fortunate of the society. However‚ within the past few years or so‚ 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
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suggested that animal welfare should be incorporated within the National Curriculum as statistics have illustrated that only 31% of the public are familiar with the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (House of Commons‚ 2016). PDSA annual animal wellbeing report suggest that most owners could not distinguish their reasonability (House of Commons‚ 2016). In 2016 RSPCA statistics illustrated that 84‚725 people received advice and improvements notices because they were not complying with the welfare standards stipulated
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What costs the federal government more than education and protection services like fire and police departments combined? Welfare does‚ and it costs the American Government over 431.5 billion dollars in the year 2011 alone. Welfare takes money out of hard working taxpaying citizen’s wallets and puts it into the hands of lazy non tax paying citizens. This program encourages the American citizen to not work so that some other person can work to pay for what the unemployed want. In the words of the
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for Welfare Recipients Tracy Brown Kaplan University Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients When considering effective ways to cut government spending‚ each state should start requiring mandatory drug testing among all its welfare recipients. Cutting welfare benefits to known drug abusers will allow benefits to be doled out more effectively and efficiently to those Americans that are truly in need‚ diminish drug use in those poverty stricken communities that tend to rely on welfare assistance
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected and encouraged Congress to create a welfare system. With the best intentions‚ politicians began to find a way to pay for votes. Because of the Great Depression many Americans were jobless and were not able to support their families. The federal government created jobs‚ and a stopgap measure to keep individuals and families from falling through a safety net created by social security and welfare. Unfortunately‚ this system came to be abused and mismanaged and today
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necessities. Welfare is the financial support of people in need but how does the government decide who needs it. Is it the government’s responsibility to help them or should these people not depend on others to help them? Murray believes that welfare is not good because there is always going to be someone who is getting it that doesn’t need it and someone who needs it but isn’t getting it. He also believes that people who are getting will become completely dependent on it.Walzer believes that welfare is good
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A growing number of people feel that animals should not be exploited by people and that they should have the same rights as humans‚ while others argue that humans must employ animals to satisfy their various needs‚ including uses for food and research. Two Opinions In this essay you are being given two opposing opinions to discuss. This is the first opinion: Animals should not be exploited by people and they should have the same rights as humans. This is the second opinion: Humans must employ animals
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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. Today there are many different kinds of welfare like social welfare‚ corporate welfare‚ and child welfare. There are other programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Women‚ Infants‚ and Children (WIC). These programs kept families together‚ children became healthier and often times‚ recipients are
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