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Why The Ridiculous, Mandatory Drug Test Laws Flooding The Country Are Struggling To Pass

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. April 27, 2012.

The bills are finally being recognized as targeting the most downtrodden and disadvantaged -- the poor, the sick, the jobless -- in the guise of helping them.

Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Tests Will Lock Homeless New Yorkers With HIV/AIDS Out of Shelters

Jaron Benjamin, Mike Selick, AlterNet. April 24, 2012.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new policy will require drug screening for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS applying for shelter.

America's ‘Inexcusable’ Indifference to Extreme Poverty -- Frances Fox Piven Speaks

Lauren Feeney, BillMoyers.com. March 15, 2012.

An interview with Frances Fox Piven, a political scientist and activist whose writings on poverty, welfare rights, and protest movements have infuriated the Right.

GOP Race-Baiting Masks Class Warfare

Daniel Denvir, Salon. January 29, 2012.

By demonizing some, the Republicans seek to discredit the safety net for the 99 percent

Where do the GOP Candidates Stand on Drug Policy? Why Now is the Time to Know

Ryan Devereaux, The Guardian. January 25, 2012.

The battle for the Republican nomination has moved to Florida, which also happens to be a key battleground in an entirely different fight: the $15bn war on drugs.

Will 2012 be the Year of State-Required Drug Tests for Public Benefits?

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. January 18, 2012.

Statehouse politicians across the country are already racing to see who can be next to introduce a bill that would require drug testing of people receiving public benefits.

Federal Judge Blocks Florida Law Requiring Drug Tests for Welfare

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. October 24, 2011.

District Court Judge Mary Scriven called mandatory drug testing for welfare applicants a violation of the Fourth Amendment and temporarily blocked the new rule.

"It's Free to Swipe Yo' EBT": How an R&B Singer's Viral Video Spreads Black Conservatism in an Age of Austerity

Nick Powers, AlterNet. September 27, 2011.

A new, mocking video asks, who's the butt of the joke?

The Failure of Welfare Reform Is 'Exhibit A' That the Right's Punish-the-Poor Philosophy Doesn't Work

Lizzy Ratner, AlterNet. August 29, 2011.

Our welfare reform experiment is little more than a confidence trick in which poor people get shuffled this way and that while their lives remain essentially unchanged.

The Human Recession: Selling Food Stamps for Kid's Shoes

Seth Wessler, Colorlines.com. February 17, 2010.

Unable to find jobs, kicked off welfare, women in Connecticut are forced to sell food assistance to buy basic necessities.

Conservative Hypocrisy: Food Stamps Are Hand-Outs to the Lazy ... Until I Need Them

Jill Filipovic, Feministe. November 30, 2009.

(Then it's still a hand-out to the lazy, just not for me.)

Mind the 'Welfare Wedge:' The Right's Overlooked Ammo in Health Care Sabotage

Mind the 'Welfare Wedge:' The Right's Overlooked Ammo in Health Care Sabotage

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. September 8, 2009.

At the heart of conservative thought is the rule of 'no handouts.' But is falling back on this belief a sign of GOP desperation?

Unemployed and on the Verge of Losing Everything: "I Don't Know How I'll Make It"

Rachel Neumann, AlterNet. July 6, 2009.

Luz Guerra has already lost her job. Now she might lose her car, her home and her health insurance.

Conservatives Party Like It's 1992: "The Government Is Giving All Your Money to Welfare Recipients!"

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. May 8, 2009.

One of the GOP's favorite b.s. talking points — the specter of welfare recipients living large on the government’s dime — is making a comeback.

Drug Tests for Unemployment Checks? Just Cheap Political Theater

Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. March 22, 2009.

As the money crunch punishes states coffers, legislators are callously pushing drug testing for welfare and unemployment recipients.

Elitist 'Future of NYC' Dinner Crashed By Real NYC Residents

Holly, Feministe. February 4, 2009.

"This is what democracy looks like." Though if it really was the protesters wouldn't have been taken away in paddy wagons.

Supreme Court Allows Warrantless Searches of Welfare Applicants' Homes

Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone. November 27, 2007.

Richard Blair: In the view of the Roberts court, it is better that ten innocents suffer than one guilty person escape.

Giuliani Compares Welfare Recipients to Animals in Racist Video from 2000 [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, August 13, 2007.

In this deeply offensive and infuriating clip Rudy tries to make jokes about his harsh welfare policies as Mayor of New York.

Alert! A jobs program that actually leads to jobs!

Elana Levin, March 19, 2007.

Elana Levin: Why does the government support jobs programs for the unemployed that lead to dead-end, short-term jobs?

Life Just Got Harder for Welfare Moms

Juliette Terzieff, Women's eNews. December 16, 2006.

Single mothers are the majority of those receiving welfare. New federal regulations will limit their time for education, time with children, or even domestic-violence counseling.

Florida Data Shows Welfare Drug Tests Cost More Taxpayer Money, Not Less

Angela Lee, December 31, 1969.


After Being Denied Food Stamps, Despairing Mother Shoots Her Two Children In Welfare Office

Marie Diamond, December 31, 1969.


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