New Report on Denying Benefits to Drug Offenders
Via Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (via e-mail):
The GAO put out a report yesterday looking at the numerous ways people convicted on drug charges lose federal benefits. Of particular note is that they state that denying financial aid to students with drug convictions not only hurts the determined students themselves, but makes our streets less safe by increasing crime and hampers America's economic productivity by reducing earnings and driving up spending on other social programs.
The full GAO report is available here (pdf). Denying financial aid to students because of a drug conviction is a stupid policy and fiscally irresponsible.
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