Welfare
Plans to drug test welfare recipients gain momentum
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Conservatives who say welfare recipients should have to pass a drug test in order to receive government assistance have momentum on their side.
Date: 02/24/2012 | Nation & World
Michigan, Pennsylvania put limits on families seeking food aid
HOWELL, Mich. -- The 2010 Buick Enclave parked in her garage kept Michigan resident Renee Moore from getting food stamps for two months last year, even though her family's income had dropped to below the poverty level, her husband's Ford Explorer had 300,000 miles on it and her family had less than...
Date: 02/09/2012 | Business
Fla. welfare applicants less likely to use drugs
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Preliminary figures on a new Florida law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more. One famous Floridian suggests that it's the people who came up with the law who should be submitting...
Date: 09/27/2011 | Nation & World
ACLU to sue over welfare drug testing in Florida
MIAMI — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing to block Florida's new law requiring new welfare recipients to pass a drug test, filing the lawsuit on behalf of a Navy veteran who was denied assistance to help care for his 4-year-old son because he refused to take the test.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Nation & World
Teen who committed suicide had been in 22 foster homes
LYNNWOOD -- A boy who jumped to his death from a Lynnwood overpass in January had been on a waiting list for a bed at a state-run psychiatric hospital. He had been in 22 different foster homes since 1998.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Local News
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