Day Jobs for Panhandlers [NationSwell.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/1/174:00 AM

Coming up with a unique, innovative way to solve a problem is great, but sometimes borrowing an existing idea is just as good.

The city of Tulsa, Okla., is looking to earmark $25,000 to fund a program that will combat panhandling by offering cleanup jobs and social services to people on the streets. It got the idea from a neighbor to the west: Albuquerque, N.M.

“Certainly, we’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. We are shamelessly stealing the idea,” says Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum, a republican who was elected last December.

[For more of this story, written by Joseph Darius Jaafari, go to http://nationswell.com/tulsa-b...dlers/#ixzz4iidm1LRC]

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