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Congress OK's Drug-Testing the Unemployed: Will It Fight Addiction?
TIME
Who benefits from forced drug tests? No one but the companies that make drug tests. By Maia Szalavitz | @maiasz | February 21, 2012 | + Last week, in a deal to maintain the payroll tax cut and extended unemployment benefits, Congress passed a law that ...
To Claim Unemployment Benefit, You May First Have To Do A Drug TestEconomyWatch.com

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Orlando Sentinel

Persistent power thieves test utilities' electricity sleuths
Orlando Sentinel
He asks that his last name not be used because anonymity helps him do his job. When Nick inspects the meter, he finds that plastic sleeves called boots, which the utility uses to stop the flow of power, litter the bottom of the meter box.

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Drug tests, 'personal growth' for those who need help?
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The drug-test mandate of Senate Bill 292 would be for anyone applying for Medicaid or for the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. TANF provides temporary financial help to low-income families with children who cannot meet ...

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Commentary: Drug testing welfare recipients is a waste of taxpayers' money
Kansas City Star
And 96 percent passed, meaning the state had to eat the costs of their tests. People who didn't test clean had to pay for the test. That's the plan in Kansas too, under a recently introduced bill. Wanting to help people become self-sufficient is often ...

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GED testing to be more difficult in 2014
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
The current cost to take the GED test is $65. Help with GED test fees comes from several sources, including the Stewart County Literacy Council and the Educational Opportunity Center, but a steep increase in price could limit the amount of people those ...

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The problem with drug testing welfare applicants
Indiana Daily Student
It's supposedly based on “reasonable suspicion” of previous drug charges but relies more on the government's unreasonable suspicion of those it's supposed to help. Last year, after the first bill of this kind was briefly implemented in Florida, ...

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Nevada first state to authorize driverless cars
msnbc.com
The Nevada becomes the first state to adopt self-driving car road rules. Msnbc's Alex Witt reports. By Paul A. Eisenstein, The Detroit Bureau The Jetsons would feel right at home in Nevada -- which this month became the first state in the nation to ...
Nevada Authorizes Driverless CarsFirst Coast News

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Promoting Self Control: It Might Not Be What You Think
Huffington Post (blog)
She says that more and more evidence is revealing that executive function skills including self control "actually predict success better than IQ tests." So, how do we promote self control? Here are a few ideas from research that show it's not how we ...




Kohli, Umesh exceptions in dismal tour for India
Times of India
If the 0-4 humiliation in the Test series was not enough, India, after a decent start to the tri-series, are almost on their way out of the one-day tournament, too. In all likelihood, the world champions in the 50-over format are a week away from ...

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IT testing facility established on Gold Coast
Queensland Business Review
The new premises would act as a fully self-contained IT education unit with both learning and testing centres, with the directors of Mercury IT anticipating rapid expansion due to the high demand within the industry. Halliday says the service forms a ...


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