Articles tagged: drug testing
With Revised Welfare Drug-Testing Bill, Nelson Thinks of the Children
At a brisk hearing today of the controversial senate bill that would subject welfare applicants to drug screening, bill author Jane Nelson of Flower Mound seeme...Read More
Hot List: Day 78 of the Legislature
It’s a big day at the Capitol....Read More
Bad Bill: Drug Testing Welfare Applicants
Back in the 1980s, talk-show radio hosts and prominent Republicans complained of welfare queens riding around in Cadillacs. Now, their imaginations are sparked ...Read More
Perry, Dewhurst: Drug Test the Unemployed
Today Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst lent their support to legislation that would require drug tests for people who apply for welfare and unemploym...Read More