{"id":6703,"date":"2012-02-19T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T15:05:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6703","title":{"rendered":"Drug Policy Alliance Press Release: “Congress Approves Drug Testing of America’s Unemployed”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drug Policy Alliance Press Release: Congress Approves Drug Testing of America’s Unemployed \/ Americans Will Be Forced to Pay for the Violation of their Own Constitutional Rights<\/a>:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, DC\u2014Congress today approved a deal which will broadly expand drug testing. As part of the deal to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, Democrats caved in to Republican demands to allow states to drug test people applying for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.<\/p>\n

The deal, which President Obama will sign, allows states to drug test UI benefit claimants who might apply to work for employers with a drug testing policy. The new policy amounts to a subsidized \u201cprescreen,\u201d at taxpayer expense, for employers who would eventually have done their own tests. The policy actually encourages employers to just announce that they will drug test, without actually paying to do it, because state unemployment bureaucracies will now do that for them.<\/p>\n

This policy is strongly skewed toward lower-wage jobs, as \u201cwhite-collar\u201d employers are far less likely to humiliate job applicants in this way. This policy broadly expands and subsidizes drug testing in a way that may be difficult to reverse for many years, if ever.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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