States consider drug testing welfare recipients, By Yamiche Alcindor, February 29, 2012, USA Today: “Getting welfare and food stamps may become tougher as 23 states around the USA seek to adopt stricter laws that would require public aid recipients to take drug tests. Florida law now requires all aid applicants to be drug tested while Arizona and Missouri require testing for anyone they ‘reasonably’ suspect of illegal drug use. For many, the proposed changes in states such as Wyoming, Illinois and Maryland will mean taking extra steps before receiving aid, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Resistance is likely to be heated, and the American Civil Liberties Union has already filed a challenge in Florida…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty