What Are The Arguments Against Mandatory Drug Testing

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Mandatory Drug Testing for Welfare Applicants Amanda Manley DeVry University-Eng112 Mandatory Drug Testing for Welfare Applicants “A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death” (Hutchins/ N.D.). Whether or not to drug test welfare applicants has been argued about since 1996, but has really only been challenged since 2011. The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 has sparked numerous controversial arguments and very difficult unanswered questions. The Fourth Amendment, the amount of money it will cost to implement the testing on all applicants and also is testing “Sound, Sensible and Constitutional” as Horace Cooper suggests, are all tenacious arguments being made.…show more content…
Public Agenda posted a statistical graph that shows 68 percent of the public agrees with the testing. 27 percent is against it and five percent are not sure how they feel. As a citizen who is on welfare I would gladly do a drug test if it meant that I wouldn’t have food or clothes for my child. This program gives a person the chance to get their life back on track and a new start. It is a win/win all the way around because, It will lower the amount of people on welfare and increase the amount of people that can be personally responsible for themselves by holding a job and being drug…show more content…
(April 8, 2008). Safe Communities, Fair Sentences: In drug testing of public assistance recipients as a condition of eligibility . Retrieved from https://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform/drug-testing-public-assistance-recipients-condition-eligibility. Almasi, D. (November 22, 2011). National Center for Public Policy: In federal judge's ruling is wrong, says scholar: The three dozen states considering drug tests for welfare recipients can do so under the law and U.S. constitution. Retrieved from http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-DrugTests_112211.html. Cooper, H. (November 22, 2011). National Center for Public Policy: In drug testing of welfare recipients is sound, sensible and constitutional. Retrieved from http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA627.html. Fox News/Opinion Dynamics. (June 3, 1999). The Public Agenda: People support mandatory drug tests for welfare recipients. Retrieved from http://www.publicagendaarchives.org/charts/people-support-mandatory-drug-tests-welfare-recipients. Hutchins, R M. (N.D.). Quotations. Robert Maynard Hutchins Quotes & Sayings. Retrieved from

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