"The $2.5 million investment will allow the program to employ
an additional 25 people
experiencing homelessness in the upcoming fiscal year, McIntyre said."
That's $100,000 per worker.
Trucks, rakes, trash bags, a Boss earning 3 times the workers, dump fees, truck.
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"This expansion of Central City Concern’s Clean Start program will put Multnomah County’s unspent dollars
into the pockets of people who need them most
— those currently living without housing —
to help them develop the skills to stabilize and stay that way,”
Vega Pederson said in a statement.
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"Develop skills
In trash clean up. "
Who's the stupid? The homeless?
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"The Washington County District Attorney’s Office asked the court to order the public defense system to boost the hourly rate for criminal defense lawyers to as much as $500 if the agency fails to quickly find lawyers for three men facing felony sex crime charges, according to new legal filings.".
I agree.
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'Legal experts say the ordinance is not in line with the intent of a federal 9th Circuit Court decision known as Martin v. Boise,
that determined is was cruel and unusual punishment to fine or arrest homeless peopl
e for sleeping on public property
when a city doesn’t have enough shelter beds
to accommodate them all."
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