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Four years later, Texas still not drug testing unemployment benefit applicants (video)

More than four years after Texas lawmakers approved a law allowing for the drug testing of certain out-of-work Texans applying for unemployment, supporters blame the Obama administration for keeping the program from getting started.

By ALANA ROCHA, The Texas Tribune
Posted 11/21/17

In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a law allowing for the drug testing of certain out-of-work Texans applying for unemployment. Republicans say politics is the reason they haven't been able to …

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