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Nikki Haley Wants Drug Testing For Jobless Benefits And Makes Up Stats To Support Them

Gov. Nikki Haley (R) told the Lexington Rotary Club Thursday that she wants South Carolinians to undergo drug screenings before they can receive unemployment benefits. "I so want drug testing," she said. "I so want it." "The problem is that

By David Edwards
09/09/11 02:45 pm
told The Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney that the failure rate was far lower than Haley had claimed.

"Half the people who applied for a job last year or year 2009 did not fail the drug test," Giusti said. "At the peak of hiring under the Recovery Act, we had less than 1 percent of those hired test positive."

He added that job applicants are not even tested at the River Site until after they have been hired.
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