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Official ties drugs to S.C. unemployment |
A member of Gov. Mark Sanford’s Cabinet said Monday that would-be workers who fail drug tests are part of the state’s rising jobless problem.S.C. Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor’s comment came during Sanford’s Cabinet meeting.As the state’s unemployment rate has climbed to the nation’s third-highest, Sanford and the S.C. Employment Commission have been in a dispute over the agency’s management.During his briefing on attempts to force the commission to provide details about the state’s unemployed, Taylor said he is hearing that part of the challenge in helping people find work can be linked to job-seekers flunking pre-hiring drug tests. Taylor did not provide data to back up his statement.“One of my concerns — and I get in trouble sometimes because people don’t like to hear it — but one of the complaints that I hear out there are drug-test failures,” Taylor said.
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