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Add another $1.5 million to Rick Scott's failed and racist drug testing bill
I am not good at my job Top 10 for worst governor winner Rick Scott continues to leech his state's taxpayers of millions. You might remember that Rick Scott created a drug testing for welfare program...
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Arizona drug-tested 87,000 welfare recipients and found they are flushing...
A lot of money has gone down the drain testing welfare recipients From Gregory Krieg at Mic:The results are thin: According to USA Today, three years after the program began Arizona had tested more...
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Biostatisticians and Epidemiologists needed to protect the future of Medicine
by Michael Langan, M.D., Instructor in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School ~It is only a few public policy steps and minor changes in state regulatory statutes before what...
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Wisconsin high school to begin randomly drug testing students
These football players and their fellow students will soon be drug tested on a regular basis. This seems like a wee bit of overkill from the Crivitz school district. From athletic director Jeff...
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Drug testing is a waste of time and money
Many years ago, when I was a very young soldier stationed in West Germany, I was awakened at oh-dark-thirty every third Tuesday of the month by the sound of a fist pounding on my barracks room door...
View ArticleHeroin is a problem
I just read a front page article about a little town in Wisconsin, near where I live, that's instituting a very foolish drug testing program in its high school. I agree with the premise of the diary,...
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Scott Walker says he wants to make people go hungry for their own good
Gov. Scott Walker, currently suing the federal government to enable Wisconsin to drug test food stamp applicants, is trying to package this as a way to help low-income people:"For us, it's not a...
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Tennessee drug tests for welfare law uncovers a whopping 55 drug users
Why drug-testing government assistance applicants is a giant waste of time and money, part the umpteenth. Tennessee implemented the type of drug-testing-for-welfare that passes constitutional muster,...
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DC Police Become Violent with 18 year old Student Who Was Standing Near an ATM
Whenever I hear someone say that a certain suspect got what he "deserved" because he ran, I have to remind them that cops are not in the business of giving out what someone deserves.Cops are not...
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Sen. Joe Manchin: Drug test people in public housing, because their kids...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) Sen. Joe Manchin is echoing many state Republicans in calling for public assistance recipients to be drug tested, but Manchin is making it kind of weird. The conservative...
View ArticleOK, I'm not making this up: Cops whine about drug testing.
Please... I beg you: Sit down. It’s ‘Unconstitutional’ to Screen Police UrineIn an unprecedented protest against the routine offenses against due process and bodily integrity carried out in the name of...
View Article2/4/16 TILT (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
February is Black History MonthToday isThank a Mail Carrier DayHomemade Soup DayCreate a Vacuum Day1) A Federal Grand Jury has handed down indictments for 16 of the participants in the Oregon Malheur...
View ArticleTennessee's welfare drug-testing program is wasting money and not finding...
Back in October, statistics were released by Tennessee on the results of a year’s worth of their war-on-the-poor drug-testing welfare applicants program. Those results were pathetic.What isn’t in...
View ArticleRepublican congressman pushes drug testing for food stamps
Drug testing for government assistance is a big trend among Republican state legislators and governors over the last few years, and they’ve run into a number of snags along the way—little things like...
View ArticleWV rep on drug testing welfare: 'I don’t want them laying around on welfare...
West Virginia, probably best known for being ranked 49th in median income and per capita income, while also being ranked 34th in cost of living, has some new great ideas. No, it’s not the Religious...
View ArticleWest Virginia becomes the latest state to demonize the poor by requiring drug...
Ignoring that it’s been repeatedly shown that poor people are no more likely to use drugs than others, and never mind that such testing has been proven to be a waste of taxpayer money, West Virginia...
View ArticleScott Walker leading GOP governors who want to make poor people's lives even...
Scott Walker might be a loser of a presidential candidate, but he's still doing his damnedest to impose his own horrible vision for the future on the nation. Specifically, more humiliation and...
View ArticleDonald Trump is coming to West Virginia!!! Yee ha.
West Virginia, don't be fooled by Trump. He can't "bring coal back." If he can, then I can bring back dinosaurs. Out of my butt. Our only hope is to get a President who will invest in our badly...
View ArticleGov. Scott Walker to form statewide pee database in his latest attempt to...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's presidential ambitions may have fizzled out long ago, but that just means he can rededicate himself to making life pointlessly miserable for his state's working residents....
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Michigan House passes GOP legislation that penalizes one group only: the poor...
Because the poor simply haven't been screwed over enough already, right?Photo by Anne C. SavageCross-posted from Eclectablog.Two bills passed by the Michigan House of Representatives this week have the...
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