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Businesses Stick Up For The Jobless -- Against Lawmakers

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.28.2012

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Arizona's business community has mobilized against an effort in the state legislature to make jobless Arizonans pee in cups in order to receive unempl...

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What Are You People, on Dope?

Dave Pederson | Posted 05.14.2012

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Around the nation we have GOP politicians trying to con the masses into believing that the poor are sucking the system dry, all the while toking, snorting and shooting their days away on the tax payers' dollars.

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Drug-Testing Welfare Recipients: A Trend With No Traction

Rachel Bloom | Posted 05.08.2012

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Two months into the state legislative session, not a single welfare drug testing bill has passed into law. In fact, in state after state these bills are dying, in part due to the high costs of implementing such laws.

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Romney: Controversial Plan Is An 'Excellent Idea'

AP | By BEN NEARY and IVAN MORENO | Posted 02.25.2012

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Conservatives who say welfare recipients should have to pass a drug test to receive government assistance have momentum on their sid...

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Congress Agrees On Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators reached a final deal to extend the popular payroll tax cut for the rest of the year, with Republicans agreeing...

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Congress Agrees On Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators reached a final deal to extend the popular payroll tax cut for the rest of the year, with Republicans agreeing...

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Welfare Drug Testing Bill Withdrawn After Amended To Include Testing Lawmakers

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.29.2012

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A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday after one o...

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Another State Wants Drug Testing For Unemployed

HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Staver | Posted 01.25.2012

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Virginia Republicans are the latest to advance drug testing for the poor and jobless as a half-dozen bills requiring the needy and unemployed to prove...

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Dems Fire Back At GOP Proposals To Drug Test Jobless: 'You Pee In The Cup'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.07.2012

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The past year has seen an unprecedented wave of Republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. It also saw a smaller wave of Democratic bills tha...

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1 Percent Of Indiana Job Applicants Fail Drug Tests

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.04.2012

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Just 1 percent of participants in an Indiana workforce training program failed their drug tests, according to the state's Department of Workforce Deve...

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Michigan Wants To Drug Test Welfare Applicants

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 12.29.2011

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Officials in Michigan's Department of Human Services want to bring back drug testing of welfare recipients, a controversial practice that Michigan cou...

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Republicans To The Unemployed: Pee In This Cup

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- During a debate on the floor of the House of Representatives this week, Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) suggested the unemployed can't find jobs ...

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Party Leaders Quiet About Proposal To Drug Test The Jobless

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Since Republicans proposed drug testing the unemployed last week, both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington have been quiet o...

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GOP Jobs Bill Allows States To Drug-Test Unemployed

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders in the House of Representatives unveiled legislation Friday that would cut 40 weeks from the duration of federal unem...

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GOP Congressman: Drug Test The Jobless

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.08.2011

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A Republican congressman has proposed drug testing people who apply for unemployment insurance. The bill by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) would requi...

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Nikki Haley's Exaggeration On Drug Testing The Jobless

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.09.2011

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) wants the jobless to pass a drug test before they can receive benefits, but she seems to have an exaggerated sense...

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