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Screening The Poor: The Legality Of Drug Testing For Welfare Benefits, Jacquelyn Bolen
Screening The Poor: The Legality Of Drug Testing For Welfare Benefits, Jacquelyn Bolen
Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest
On March 8, 2014, at the conclusion of the 2014 Virginia General Assembly regular session, Virginia joined at least 17 other states that, in this year alone, have introduced proposals to screen or test applicants for illegal substances prior to obtaining public assistance. Following the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which permitted states to conduct drug testing as part of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, states began proposing drug screenings for applicants of public welfare benefits. Despite a 2003 Sixth Circuit decision holding that suspicionless drug testing is unconstitutional, in …
Rethinking Social Ventures In Hong Kong, Damian Alexander Bethke, Jedrzej Gorski
Rethinking Social Ventures In Hong Kong, Damian Alexander Bethke, Jedrzej Gorski
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
Hong Kong has experienced a significant transformation in its understanding of business, which concerns the phenomenon of social ventures that attempt to combine a make money and do good approach and to apply business skills to address social needs. Social ventures live a mystical existence, as they are fully ignored from a legal perspective despite the recent reform of laws on charitable activities. This causes problems as to their general understanding, which the authors try to address with their own typology, systematically characterizing social ventures. Then the authors examine the legal environment of social ventures in Hong Kong and identify …
Screening The Poor: The Legality Of Drug Testing For Welfare Benefits, Jacquelyn Bolen
Screening The Poor: The Legality Of Drug Testing For Welfare Benefits, Jacquelyn Bolen
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
On March 8, 2014, at the conclusion of the 2014 Virginia General Assembly regular session, Virginia joined at least 17 other states that, in this year alone, have introduced proposals to screen or test applicants for illegal substances prior to obtaining public assistance. Following the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which permitted states to conduct drug testing as part of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, states began proposing drug screenings for applicants of public welfare benefits. Despite a 2003 Sixth Circuit decision holding that suspicionless drug testing is unconstitutional, in …