According to recently released figures from the Department of Human Services, only 0.2 percent of Tennessee welfare applicants failed a new drug screening in place for recipients of public assistance.

That’s 37 out of 16,000 people, a tiny fraction that Think Progress points out “contrasts sharply with the state’s overall 8 percent rate of drug use. Across the country, states that implement drug tests for low-income families have found that economically vulnerable people are less likely than the general population to use drugs.”

This is an example of a system put in place by lawmakers who consider “facts” troublesome and whose entire social philosophy boils down to: “Ew, poor people.” According to Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the ACLU of Tennessee:

“You are requiring more than 16,000 people to be screened for drug use based on the assumption that people who receive public assistance are more likely to use illegal drugs. There’s no evidence to indicate that’s true.”

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