Category Archives: food stamps

USDA Declares Georgia’s Food Stamp Drug Testing Law to be Illegal

(APN) ATLANTA — We told you so.  As it turns out, State Rep. Greg Morris’s (R-Vidalia) House Bill 772–requiring food stamp recipients to be drug tested if a state worker had a so-called “reasonable suspicion” that the recipient might be using drugs–is illegal.    Food Stamp caseworkers are not trained to detect drug use and “reasonable suspicion” is not defined. […]

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Georgia Legislature Crossover Day Overview

  (APN) ATLANTA — Monday, March 03, 2014, was Crossover Day for the Georgia Legislature.  This is the day by which any bills had to have passed either the State House or State Senate in order to still be alive for consideration in the other respective chamber this year.   The following is a summary of the current status of […]

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