Sentence examples for test welfare from inspiring English sources

Texas Democrats beat back Perry's proposal to test welfare recipients.

It'd be a little more appropriate if Radel hadn't earlier voted for a bill to drug test welfare recipients.

Republicans in many other states have also sought to drug test welfare applicants, but following Scott's losses in federal court, they opted for suspicion-based testing programs rather than testing everyone who asks for help.

Citing the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches by the government -- the Supreme Court has long held that forcing people to pee in cups counts as searching them -- federal judges this week thwarted Florida's efforts to test welfare applicants.

When Florida Governor Rick Scott got a law enacted to drug test welfare recipients, a) the Daily Show's John Oliver showed up at a press conference to ask Scott if he thought politicians too should pee in a bottle before getting paid... and a state court has enjoined its implementation as overly intrusive.

EARLIER this summer I wrote about Florida's plan to start drug testing welfare recipients.

"In other states drug testing welfare recipients has proven to be a costly, colossal failure," he told The Independent.

The Nationals MP George Christensen has thrown his support behind the idea of drug testing welfare recipients, saying it would "stop taxpayers feeding a drug habit".