this will cost us here in florida more then help. There is a site telling sample size that was done in michigan and what it means for people in kentucky, Rick scott has been the worst governer this state has ever seen. He has layoff teachers left and right. He has canceled the private homeowners insurance for a lot of people that now will have to pay high rates to other places. He has a approval rate of like 1 percent or some shit. I honestly could care less about this bill, but scott is a idiot.
In the five weeks that the program was in effect, the drug tests were positive in only eight percent of the cases, a percentage that is consistent with drug use in the general population. Of 268 people tested, only 21 tested positive for drugs and all but three were for marijuana.
which is ~1.11% of the sample size, which isn’t nearly significant enough of a sample to infer anything about the general population, but we’ll go with it for argument’s sake since the original post did. According to the previous article, there are 58,124 people in Kentucky on welfare. 1.11% of 58,124 is ~639 people. The previous article stated it was only 216. ThingsComeUndone’s math was off by quite a bit. So if 639 people are now losing their welfare benefits, that is an additional $1,533,600 in savings per year.
Let’s do the math all over again now, and do it
correctly this time. The cost of drug testing the 58,124 welfare recipients in Kentucky would be $50.33 * 58,124, which comes out to $2,925,380. The amount you save by taking away the welfare benefits of only those testing positive for illegal drugs other than marijuana is $1,533,600.
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