Independence Homeless Cleanup Crews: Solution Or Showmanship?!?

KCMO has this same program and the results aren't really that notable other than local news hype stories. 

Sadly . . . The bad ideas are catchy in the Kansas City metro . . . Today's example . . .

"The city started Monday paying $12 an hour to people experiencing unstable housing to collect litter from some of the city's main thoroughfares. Workers will also get additional money to save toward future housing."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Independence hopes its street clean-up can put homeless people to work and on a path to housing

Independence, Missouri, officials have hired homeless people to pick up trash - aiming to give them work experience and a start on saving toward housing.. "This ... is really that critical employment piece that makes a bridge from unsheltered to permanent housing," said Doug Cowan, the president of Community Services League .