{"id":26888,"date":"2017-04-22T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26888"},"modified":"2017-04-22T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:23:39","slug":"arkansas-times-state-spends-30000-drug-testing-tanf-recipients-for-drugs-nabs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26888","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Times: State spends $30,000 drug testing TANF recipients for drugs, nabs 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress: <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/states-spend-millions-to-drug-test-the-poor-turn-up-few-positive-results-81f826a4afb7\">States spend millions to drug test the poor, turn up few positive results<\/a> by Josh Isreal (&#8220;They spent $1.3 million to find just 369 drug users.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>My own state: Arkansas Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/ArkansasBlog\/archives\/2017\/04\/21\/state-spends-30000-drug-testing-tanf-recipients-for-drugs-nabs-2\">State spends $30,000 drug testing TANF recipients for drugs, nabs 2<\/a> by Leslie Newell Peacock:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Arkansas, there were 3,040 applicants for TANF in 2016 after the legislation passed in 2015. Only six people were tested. Two came back positive. Cost: $30,243.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress: States spend millions to drug test the poor, turn up few positive results by Josh Isreal (&#8220;They spent $1.3 million to find just 369 drug users.&#8221;) My own state: Arkansas Times: State spends $30,000 drug testing TANF recipients &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26888\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26889,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888\/revisions\/26889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}