[Rashputin]

You're missing an important point.

Those jobs may require a drug test and at the local Walmart where a friend of mine is the manager, only 1 out of 4 applicants pass the drug test.

The proper solution for food stamps, IMHo, is to require a drug test to receive the foodstamps. That would reduce the rolls a lot more than a work requirement.

[kearnyirish2]

We aren’t allowed to say so aloud anymore, but the idea that someone receiving public assistance of any kind has money for illegal drugs is ridiculous; that alone (not job eligibility) should drive the drug testing requirement.

[gogeo]

Oh yeah.

[Oatka]

Those jobs may require a drug test and at the local Walmart where a friend of mine is the manager, only 1 out of 4 applicants pass the drug test.

I worked as a night-stocker at W-M some years ago and we were always understaffed. All of us griped about it until one night the supervisor explained they had 34 applicants - 30 failed the drug test, four were hired. Three showed up, two quit after the first day and the other lasted a week.