Hiring the Homeless

Clip: 9/29/2016 | 8m 36s

Program aims to employ panhandlers and provide them with resources.

While many cities in the U.S. have moved to criminalize homelessness, imposing fees for lying down, camping and begging, Albuquerque, New Mexico has taken a different approach. It has initiated a program it calls “There’s a Better Way,” picking up homeless individuals and transporting them to jobs that pay them in cash at the end of the work period. Correspondent Lucky Severson reports.

09/29/2016 | Rating NR

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