North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests
Source: Mashable- on Yahoo
North Carolina revealed early results on Tuesday from a round of drug tests given to those applying for or living with the help of welfare.
From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people.
Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.
Anyone who has used drugs in the past year or was convicted of a felony drug crime in the past three years gets tested. If adult applicants and recipients miss an appointment or test positive ...
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Another yyuuuge waste of money.
The previous article said it was costing North Carolina almost $100 per test.
To reduce benefits for 12 people.
(sigh)
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)The Repulican crown ->
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Cause, you know, they're just a sadistic bunch of jerks!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)But their thinking is totally illogical.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Yeah, they don't need no stinkin' logic when it comes to being jackasses.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Born out of hate for poor people.
Ellen Forradalom
(16,160 posts)Doesn't anyone learn from anyone else?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)LEARN? As in "education"? This is about CONvincing your CONNEDstituents that you're watching their pennies while flushing their dollars.
Maybe North Carolina should test it's waters for lead too!
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Why, we had to make our own deeply insulting waste of money to make sure those people are a little more miserable.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Total #$^%$& waste of money.
Plus, I wonder if the corporate pricks that get huge amounts of tax dollars get THEIR blood tested...Yeah right.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)And...
Whose lab was it sent to, 'cause sombody made a bundle!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...do with the Governor's wife.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Actually slightly less as some didn't show. And about 25% of people failed the test.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Count on it.
Orrex
(63,212 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)enrich Repugs is to drive solar and other renewable energy sources out of business (so the Koch Bros. can provide us fossil-based energy). Also, he wants nuclear power classified as "renewable", so it can qualify for tax breaks and special considerations. Education in NC is crashing-and-burning. The teachers are demoralized and leaving. Enrollment in NC universities in education is in steep decline. Thinking about moving your family here? Don't. We are so gerry-mandered that our only hope is for the SCOTUS to order redistricting.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)negoldie
(198 posts)These republican welfare queens would step over 100 dollar bills to pick up a shiny dime. Disgusting!
pscot
(21,024 posts)if they drug tested the lege.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Of those, 21 tested positive.
The social workers review first - they are only drug testing those with a known drug problem, which is why so many tested positive.
Is it a good use of the social workers' time? That's the question to ask.
trillion
(1,859 posts)The answer is no, it is a waste of time since they subjected all to the screening and then actually tested 89 and all tested were known drug users in the last year. BTW, They should give the ones who tested positive more health services to beat the drugs, not less.
It doesn't say which drugs these people were on. I bet a majority caught only smoked a joint in the last 3 months. Now that's the reason to withhold support
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)probably not.
I bet you are right about the marijuana, too.
This is at least rational in that they didn't test everyone, thus wasting the public's money.
trillion
(1,859 posts)who are now going to have reduced support are proof that this works.
and
Sorry, I lack the sociopathy to ignore the injustice to poor families with kids.
I hope the righteous repukes playing gestapo over social services are happy now.
randys1
(16,286 posts)corporate executives and politicians for a conscience, and if they dont have one, take ALL their money and put their ass out in the street.
Then take that money and hand it to the people they tested in this system.
Keep it up, assholes, keep it up.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)JFKDem62
(383 posts)If elected, they are responsible for the life and death of Americans.
Time to make sure they are up for the job.