Drug-testing for welfare recipients advances despite program’s past failure

Drug-testing for welfare recipients advances despite program’s past failure

On Wednesday, a Florida House panel cleared a modified version of a bill that would require the Department of Children and Families to drug-test people seeking cash assistance, despite staff research that shows a similar program tested between 1999 and 2001 was a failure.
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Bills would require welfare applicants to take, pay for drug tests

Bills are advancing in both houses of the Florida Legislature requiring applicants for welfare benefits to take and pay for drug tests, despite Democratic and even some Republican opposition.