Drugtesting Welfare Recipients

Stopping Government Paid Partying

Bailey Tedesco

English 102

Mrs. Banks

11:00 am MW

December 8th, 2014

Abstract

Welfare assistance has been around since the 1930’s. It began in the great depression, and is still around today. The problem today though is that many who receive assistance are abusing by using it for drugs or using it as an excuse to not get a job. This is unfair to tax payers who work for their money and are helping support the ones who do not. Everyone needs help and should be able to receive help in these hard times if needed but not just as an excuse to sit around all day and receive free money. These types of things ruin it for the ones who really do need the help to support themselves and their family. Some states have already starting drug testing in some form for people who receive assistance. The other states should jump on board and the same.

Drug Testing people who receive welfare assistance

In the United States of America, welfare assistance began in the 1930’s during the great depression (welfare statistics). Welfare assistance is an organized public service for the assistance of needy families. Welfare assistance can include many things such as food stamps, Medicaid, federal and state housing benefits, general welfare payments, and special payments for pregnant woman and young mothers. Americans can make one thousand dollars monthly and still receive welfare (welfare statistics). There are thirty-nine U.S states where welfare pays more than $8.00 per hour job (welfare statistics). Some states have passed that one can only receive welfare assistance for two to five years maximum (Schaberg, 2012). Most of these people receive a type of welfare assistance called TANF or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (Riddle, pg. 140). The relationship between welfare assistance and substance abuse has been a topic of much debate in the United States since 1996 (Riddle, pg. 138). There is 4.1 percent of the population on...