CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Conservatives who say welfare recipients should have to pass a drug test to receive government assistance have momentum on their side. The issue has come up in the Republican ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Drug-policy reformers were stunned this month when voters in deep-blue San Francisco overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure that reads like a Republican talking point from Richard ...

Should James Cameron, acclaimed director of hit movies such The Terminator and Titanic, have to pass a drug test if he recieves government subsidies to film movies in Michigan? A bipartisan group of ...

After spending more than $1 million drug testing welfare recipients, seven states have learned that it doesn’t work. A report released by ThinkProgress shows that welfare applicants actually test ...

The most common political memes I see shared on Facebook have to do with welfare recipients mooching off the system and unfairly receiving undeserved benefits. Many of these misinformed ideas have led ...

A Republican-led push in the West Virginia Senate again, for drug testing for some welfare recipients. But things are different now, than when drug testing was first proposed. Now with Republicans are ...

In one of the most emailed articles this week on TIME.com, legal columnist Adam Cohen questions the constitutionality and financial benefit of a new Florida law that requires welfare applicants to ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Under a new Florida law, people applying for welfare have to take a drug test at ...

When Gov. Rick Scott first ran for office in 2010, he vowed that one way he would save taxpayers money would be to require welfare applicants to undergo tests. "If you go apply for a job today, you ...

The idea of random drug testing for welfare recipients is nothing new. Discussions along these lines have played in the background for quite some time. But now at least eight states -- including ...