Welfare Recipients | Why We Shouldn’t | | Michael Chiodo (11594970) | 8/30/2012 | Drug testing welfare recipients has been a major topic across the United States for a few years now. Many argue that if working class people are subject to a test prior to hire or randomly during the length of employment, why should those that don’t have to work for money not have the same treatment? Invasion of privacy is a huge disadvantage on the government’s part, yes it is free money but that doesn’t entitle
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Mandatory Drug Testing Legislation The subject of our debate is whether or not public assistance recipients should be required to pass a mandatory drug test as a qualifying standard. There are currently twenty seven states considering some type of legislation this year that would require anybody wishing to receive public assistance to pass a drug test in order to do so. While on the surface this type of policy seems to make sense in order to regulate where a state uses its funds, there are many who
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high school is appropriate. There are many things to consider when making this decision, like constitutional rights and privacy, cost, and even if doing random drug tests will change the problem (drug problem). Los Angeles Times writer David G. Savage asks in the article “Justices Consider School Drug Tests,” “Could routine drug tests, like metal detectors, soon become an accepted part of daily life at many American high schools?” Drugs have become a major problem with children, but not all of them
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Drug Tests and Pretrial Programs Bernadette Matthews CJA/373 October 29, 2012 Richard Rice Drug Tests and Pretrial Programs Should defendants be forced to take drug tests? Yes, when it involves certain cases such as, cases that deals with any type of drug arrests and cases that deal with domestic related cases when The Department of Children and Families have to get involved. I believe that this would help with many individuals and families on narrowing down the key
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Should people seeking government assistance be required to take drug tests? INTRODUCTION On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, also known as the Welfare Reform Bill, into effect ending welfare as it had been known for many years. “This law transformed the traditional entitlement to cash welfare under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) into a transitional program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), which requires
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actions. Even our soldiers have to pass drug tests so that they can go overseas to fight for our country, but the recipients of Michigan Welfare do not need to oblige. Paid employees have to adhere to drug testing in order to keep their jobs, so that they can receive the paycheck for which they worked hard, and earned. Employees pay taxes too, which to towards State and Local programs, like Welfare. Is it right that Welfare recipients not have to pass a drug test to receive free assistance? They don’t
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Topic: Should Food Stamp Recipients be made to Drug Test for Benefits? Thesis: People receiving food stamps should be tested for drugs because people on Food Stamps are considered to be mostly low income families and testing for drugs might stop some of the selling of food stamps. Main Point 1: People who apply for food stamps while under the influence of drugs should be made to test for them. Some people feel that drugs are not bad based on the drugs of choice but I think anything that affects
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been injured on the job to have to submit themselves to a drug test prior to any workmen’s compensation payment. It’s important for employment organizations to consider the negative effects of not instilling random drug tests in their bi-laws and instead look at the positive outcomes that it will bring. Even if it takes an organization three years to replace the money that it spends on testing, its livelihood depends on
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psychological testing in the workplace is the cognitive ability tests, personality tests are also being used more and more frequently. Psychological Tests A psychological test is a series of standardized problems or questions that assess a certain individual characteristic. Tests are commonly used to assess many KSAOs, including knowledge, skill, ability, attitudes, interests, and personality (Spector, 2008). There are three types of psychological tests used in the workplace to help differentiate between
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