However, the majority of TANF programs across the country rarely integrate such approaches, and in many states, TANF participants that are unable to meet the mandated work requirements, potentially due to poor health and exposure to violence and adversity, may be more likely to be “sanctioned,...
recent policy changes relevant to public assistance, in particular efforts to impose drug testing requirements. 2.1.1. The Second New DealThe current programs, TANF and SNAP, owe their existence to predecessors created as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program. Aid to Dependent Children...
Recently, the issue of drug testing in federal assistance programs has risen in prominence. In the case of TANF, states are permitted to drug-test recipients; however, state policies involvingsuspicionlessdrug testing of TANF applicants and recipients have been successfully challenged in courts. Most...