Conservatives who say welfare recipients should have to pass a drug test in order to receive government assistance have momentum on their side.
The issue has come up in the Republican presidential campaign, with front-runner Mitt Romney saying “it’s an excellent idea.”
Nearly two dozen states are considering plans this session that would make drug testing mandatory for welfare recipients, according to the National Council of State Legislatures. And Wyoming lawmakers advanced such a proposal this week.
Driving the measures is a perception that people on public assistance are misusing the funds and that cutting off their benefits would save money for tight state budgets — even as statistics have largely proved both notions untrue.
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not sure how that system works, but, I would think that many of those welfare folks are able bodied but can’t find jobs??? anyway they should be ready to go looking for work and if they have a large % of these people sitting around doing drugs, well there not out looking for work or trying to improve themselves to get ready to go out looking for work, so I don’t see a pbm with drug testing. If I had to go on welfare God forbid, I wouldn’t care about drug testing as that’s not asking much for giving me money and whatever else the taxpayers would be doing for me.