Texas City Funds Program That Pays Homeless to Pick Up Trash

[Sanguine]

The city of Fort Worth is paying homeless people to pick up trash as part of a unique program to clean up the city and turn lives around.

Frank Crist, 53, earns $10 an hour to pick up litter in the area southeast of downtown where many homeless people live. He also gets paid vacation and benefits.

"It just makes you feel better keeping it cleaned up," he said. "It means a lot. I mean, with my record and stuff, I really had no other place that would hire me."...


https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Fort-Worth-Pays-Homeless-People-to-Pick-Up-Trash-470183833.html?_osource=taboola-recirc

This might actually work.  And, it's not a government plan.

[roamer_1]

This might actually work.  And, it's not a government plan.

Up here it's a punishment reserved almost exclusively for 'non-violent' troublesome yoots, and for drunks, falling under the aegis of 'Community Service'. I would be loathe to give that up... So many of my friends (and I myself) have donned that hunter orange vest and all the embarrassment that went with it. Without it, what is left is 30 days in the can.

[Suppressed]

This might actually work.  And, it's not a government plan.

Benjamin Franklin thought so...and his was government:
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/franklin/benjamin/autobiography/chapter13.html