{"id":6641,"date":"2012-02-06T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:33:08","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6641","title":{"rendered":"In PA: Pilot program of drug tests for welfare recipients may go statewide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Examiner.com: Harrisburg headlines: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/headlines-in-harrisburg\/pilot-program-of-drug-tests-for-welfare-recipients-may-go-statewide\">Pilot program of drug tests for welfare recipients may go statewide<\/a> by Yvonne P Mazzulo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On January 18th, 2012, Senator David G. Argall (R-29) announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) would implement a drug testing pilot program in Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n<p>Under the pilot program, DPW will randomly drug test applicants and recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and General Assistance cash assistance who have been convicted of a felony drug offense that occurred within the past five years and for applicants who are currently on probation for a felony drug offense.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the announcement of the pilot program for Schuylkill County, Senator Argall stated, \u201cPeople at my town hall meetings throughout the district repeatedly tell me they would like to see serious reforms to stop giving a \u2018free ride\u2019. This news is long overdue in a department that consumes 30 percent of the state budget.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}