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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – Conservatives who say welfare recipients should have to pass a drug test to receive government assistance have momentum on their side. The issue has come up in the Republican ...

After spending more than $1 million drug testing welfare recipients, seven states have learned that it doesn’t work. A report released by ThinkProgress shows that welfare applicants actually test ...

The most common political memes I see shared on Facebook have to do with welfare recipients mooching off the system and unfairly receiving undeserved benefits. Many of these misinformed ideas have led ...

Today in Virginia a mother is up bright and early to get screened for drug testing in order to enroll in the US army to support her child. In Florida a 21-year old mother gets up to feed her two ...

A Florida judge has issued a temporary injunction that will stop enforcement of a measure that requires welfare applicants to be tested for drugs before receiving benefits. Now, if only a judge could ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal appeals court began hearing arguments in a challenge to a Florida state law requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test. Florida's 2011 law required welfare applicants ...

When Gov. Rick Scott first ran for office in 2010, he vowed that one way he would save taxpayers money would be to require welfare applicants to undergo tests. "If you go apply for a job today, you ...

The idea of random drug testing for welfare recipients is nothing new. Discussions along these lines have played in the background for quite some time. But now at least eight states -- including ...