U.S. State Politicians Push Drug Testing for Poor and Unemployed
Submitted on January 20, 2012
By Phillip Smith - January 18, 2012
Faced with serious budget deficits as the economy continues sputtering through a weak recovery, would-be populists and small government conservatives see public benefits recipients as easy targets in their battle to ease the burdens of the taxpayers. With many Americans struggling hard to make ends meet, the narrative that welfare recipients or people receiving jobless benefits are just lazy junkies living [off taxpayers] resonates in some quarters.
