May 7, 2018

Pat Sweeney has never forgotten the day she arrived at her parents’ house to find it in flames. The top floor of the house she grew up in was destroyed, and her parents sat outside, wrapped in blankets. “The only thing that saved them was the “blood-curdling, high-pitched sound of the smoke alarms,” she said. […]

In 2017, states spent more than $490,000 to drug-test 2,541 people who had applied for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits, which yielded just 301 positive tests. While the costs for these programs has dropped somewhat over the past three years, the number of positive tests has also declined. This year, ThinkProgress also asked