Another drug scheme down the drain

Think Progress -Tennessee’s first year of drug testing welfare recipients uncovered drug use by less than 0.2 percent of all applicants for the state’s public assistance system.

In total, just 1.6 percent of the 28,559 people who applied for Temporary Assistance for Needy Familiesbenefits in the first year of testing answered one of the three screening questions positively. Out of the 468 people who peed in a state-funded cup, 11.7 percent flunked the test.