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California highway workers face 'buckets of human feces,' needles as homeless crisis worsens
By Travis Fedschun
Published May 01, 2018
FoxNews.com
As California's homeless population skyrockets, the cost of cleaning up the state's numerous shanty towns is also hitting record highs -- and the price tag is likely to keep rising as workers tasked with tossing the vagrants' syringes, feces and buckets of urine fight for safer conditions.
The Golden State's homeless population of more than 130,000 people is now about 25 percent of the nationwide total, and cleaning up after the surging group is getting costly -- topping $10 million in 2016-17. But the human cost is getting equally untenable, a workers' advocate says.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/01/california-highway-workers-face-buckets-human-feces-needles-as-homeless-crisis-worsens.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/01/california-highway-workers-face-buckets-human-feces-needles-as-homeless-crisis-worsens.html)