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San Jose to pay homeless $15/hour to pick up trash

Posted by / October 27, 2018

If you’ve read anything about the Bay Area in the past few months, you’ve read that they have a major homeless problem and a major trash problem. It’s not just San Francisco that’s suffering. San Jose is also having problems. So the city is working with Goodwill to hire homeless people and clean up trash in forty hotspots around the city. The program is designed to change the narrative about homeless people, who are often blamed for trash on the streets. It also aims to help them get back on their feet, especially since some are trying but just can’t make it work.

Full story at SJ Mercury.

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