This will work out about as well as the one in Florida did.

be strange if he or others he is associated with have some sort of ties with a testing facility????

The stupidity of those we elect never ceases to amaze me.

“We want to remove the barriers that are keeping people from getting good jobs, supporting their families and living independently,” Snyder said

Ah, yeah!

Assuming that their luck was actually hard work that anyone can do

In FL the program was universal, meaning all applicants were tested. It is currently shut down as an unconstitutional search, pending appeals. They are attempting to skirt the constitution by requiring testing only for those "suspected" here.

However, in FL the plan ran about a year until a lawsuit matured and the program was found to be an unconstitutional search.

Bottom line, of all applicants less that 2% were found to test positive. The cost of the testing vastly exceeded the "savings" from denied benefits.

The program was a farce.

If you actually work with the very poor and homeless, you will find that many have substance abuse problems, but if you are actually paying attention, you will also find virtually none of these folks receive government benefits of any type, most panhandle or do day labor. Most of these folks could not even produce ID to apply for benefits. Drug addicts do not apply for government benefits, they tend to stay away from government offices because drug use is "criminal behavior" and they prefer not getting arrested.

It is a right wing fantasy that those receiving government checks are drug addicts, or "failures" in some other easily dismissed way. It is actually more likely that most receiving benefits are clean and sober, working, and go to church regularly

.. wasted on this kind of shit. They keep electing these draconian assholes.

And a big waste of money, as well. But I guess money is no object when it comes to punishing poor people...

Bet 'for profit' treatment programs and any 'for profits' who keep kids love this law. No wonder states cry they are broke.

This has been shown to have no benefit and is costly.

wonder which right wing knuckle dragger owns a "drug" testing lab.

for crap like this. The cost of testing and running the whole operation will likely exceed any savings gotten from finding the few drug users who collect benefits. And then there’s the cost of the inevitable lawsuit that will shut it all down.