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Honeycombe8

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5. Unemployment benefits applicants have to be drug tested?

Reply to 58Sunliner (Original post)

Thu Mar 16, 2017, 01:28 PM

Mar 2017

I hadn't heard that. I knew that some dark red states were requiring welfare recipients to be drug tested. But people who have been laid off? What's the point of that?

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CONGRESS SENDS TRUMP DRUG TEST MEASURE FOR UNEMPLOYED [View all] 58Sunliner Mar 2017 OP

((((shhhh....people are working....)))) NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 #1

Sorry-just copied, was in a hurry. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #10

just pulling your leg! NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 #11

Deregulation that burdens people with more regulations bucolic_frolic Mar 2017 #2

I think Congress Else You Are Mad Mar 2017 #3

And arousal to pedophilia and bathroom sex. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #7

repubulicans want government out of their lives, but,... Jimbo101 Mar 2017 #4

Unemployment benefits applicants have to be drug tested? Honeycombe8 Mar 2017 #5

Apparently some states can test after you are laid off or fired if the drug use would 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #9

Let's give Trump a drug test. Lonestarblue Mar 2017 #6

My brother had a cocaine problem. He had those symptoms. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #8

Follow the money...mandatory drug testing is a profitable business, Tanuki Mar 2017 #12