http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/13/1364275/-Tennessee-just-wasted-a-lot-of-money-drug-testing-welfare-recipients?detail=email
Tennessee's new policy of drug testing citizens who have applied for public assistance is going great!
Out of more than 16,000 applicants from the beginning of July through the end of 2014, just 37 tested positive for illegal drug use. While that amounts to roughly 13 percent of the 279 applicants who the state decided to test based on their answers to a written questionnaire about drug use, the overall rate among applicants is just 0.2 percent.
How awesome has this policy been? Ask a Republican!
“That’s 37 people who should not be receiving taxpayer subsidies, because they are not behaving as they are supposed to,” said state Rep. Glen Casada, a Republican from Franklin. “If the taxpayers are going to support you there are certain criteria you need to adhere to. This is a good use of taxpayer money.”
The state with the lowest benefits package in 2013 was Mississippi, at $16,984, followed by Tennessee ($17,413), Arkansas ($17,423), Idaho ($17,766) and Texas (18,037).
This is good news all around as Tennessee continues to grow its poverty levels while the rest of the country tries to lessen them.
Employment also improved across the mid-South. But poverty rates in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama remained above the national average. In Tennessee and Georgia, one of every six residents was in poverty during the most recent 2012-2013 survey by the Census Bureau. The share of persons living in poverty rose to 18.4 percent in Tennessee, up 1.9 percent, and to 16.4 percent in Alabama, but it fell slightly in Georgia to 17.2 percent.
we know how bad republicans are with math well it seems with the different things they have called foul with that are part the social net for elderly and poor and the stats are always so low if you sneeze you'll blow them off the paper voter fraud as low as 0.000003- 0.000009 and it must be dealt with but millions on witch hunts, 56 time vote to repeal aok with them but if anybody tries to get a free ride if i might quote Beohner, "oh hell no you can't". i see this as the same thing as presumption of innocence, i'm sure their reasons are different born more of denial than concern for those deserving not the republican way.
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer",http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation
