claim: "studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare."
author: rick scott
evidence_1: "studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than  people not on welfare." - rick scott quotes from brainyquote.com.
evidence_2: about people who need snap benefits and would undermine the program's ...  suspicion-less drug testing of applicants or recipients of public assistance is ...  population and adults who do not receive welfare. ... furthermore, testing is costly , and states have found the costs are greater than the savings of ... aren't drug  users.
evidence_3: aug 30, 2013 ... now, if you're the kind of person who forwards apocryphal stories about ... or far  more than the cost of providing benefits to a dozen people. ... sure taxpayer  money is not being used to support drug dealers,” schaffer said. ... that the large  majority of welfare recipients are neither drug users nor drug dealers.
evidence_4: sep 17, 2017 ... the stated aim is twofold: to help unemployed people with drug problems ... to  show that mandatory testing will help unemployed drug addicts ... but it examines  the flaws in the rationale for drug testing welfare recipients at greater length. ...  research centre, told fact check proceeding without an evidence ...
evidence_5: dec 13, 2015 ... is drug testing welfare recipients (and then disqualifying those who fail from ...  the pro-welfare drug testing meme reproduced above appears to present a ...  with denying benefits to those who test positive, the former showing a net ... $2  and $3 per person per day (don't expect to get rich off of welfare!), this ...