The following article by Judd Legum was posted on the ThinkProgress website January 13, 2018:
An utter waste.
In 2015, West Virginia passed legislation requiring some applicants for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to submit to drug testing. The state estimated that over the first year, the program would identify 390 people as drug users at a cost of $50,000.
The program has now been in place for three months and just four people, less than one-half of a percent of all applicants, tested positive. In the general population, the rate of drug use is 9.4%. Continue reading “West Virginia started drug testing welfare recipients and the results were a total flop”