Monday, June 17, 2013

Baton Rouge’s New Plan For Its Homeless Population: Give Them One-Way Bus Tickets

Baton Rouge’s New Plan For Its Homeless Population: Give Them One-Way Bus Tickets: Baton Rouge has a new idea for how to treat its 800 homeless residents: give them a one-way ticket out of town. Late last week, the city’s Metro Council approved a measure to fund one-way bus tickets for homeless people. Officials originally named it the “Clean Sweep” program; after they realized that comparing homeless people [...]/p