{"id":18153,"date":"2015-07-24T07:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18153"},"modified":"2015-07-24T07:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:55:38","slug":"policy-mic-arizona-drug-tested-welfare-recipients-here-are-the-shocking-results-1-positive-in-87000-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18153","title":{"rendered":"Policy Mic: Arizona Drug Tested Welfare Recipients \u2014 Here Are the Shocking Results [1 positive in 87,000 tests]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Mic: <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/122607\/arizona-drug-tested-welfare-recipients-here-are-the-shocking-results\">Arizona Drug Tested Welfare Recipients \u2014 Here Are the Shocking Results<\/a> by Gregory Krieg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on July 13, he peppered his 34-minute speech with a laundry list of deeply conservative policy prescriptions. Among them was a requirement \u2014 much like the one in the state budget he signed less than 24 hours before the event \u2014 that welfare recipients pass a drug test before collecting public assistance benefits.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>According to USA Today, Arizona tested more than 87,000 welfare recipients in the three years after the program began. The total number of drug cheats caught was exactly one \u2014 a single positive result, which saved the state precisely $560.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Mic: Arizona Drug Tested Welfare Recipients \u2014 Here Are the Shocking Results by Gregory Krieg: When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on July 13, he peppered his 34-minute speech with a laundry &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18153\">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-18153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18154,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18153\/revisions\/18154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}