Texas leaders propose a law they say will stop taxpayer money from getting to …

Filed under: Texas Drug Abuse

The bill aims at drug-screening all applicants of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, and Unemployment Insurance benefits. "Texas taxpayers will not subsidize or tolerate illegal drug abuse. Every dollar that goes to someone who uses it …
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Texas man pleads guilty in drug ring tied to Ga.

Filed under: Texas Drug Abuse

A South Texas man has pleaded guilty to using his furniture store and trucking business in a drug smuggling ring with ties to Georgia. Prosecutors in Corpus … Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts. 6 Share with Us. We …
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Perry & Dewhurst Call For Drug Testing Welfare & Unemployment Applicants

Filed under: Texas Drug Abuse

From a news release issued Tuesday, “Texas taxpayers will not subsidize or tolerate illegal drug abuse. Every dollar that goes to someone who uses it inappropriately is a dollar that can't go to a Texan who needs it for housing, child care or medicine …
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Kurt Schwarz: Drug-testing plan unfairly targets poor and unemployed

Filed under: Texas Drug Abuse

Aside from the insulting implication that the poor and unemployed are, simply by virtue of being poor or unemployed, likely to use illegal drugs, this measure raises serious constitutional questions about unwarranted government searches. … receive …
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