Texas city pays homeless to clean the streets

 The city of Fort Worth, Texas, is paying homeless people to pick up trash as part of a unique program to clean up the city and turn lives around. Frank Crist earns $10 an hour to pick up litter where many homeless people live. Crist, who served prison time for drugs and ended up on the street, now lives at the Presbyterian Night Shelter, which hired him as part of a program called Clean Slate. Last year, Clean Slate put 40 homeless people to work and approximately 3,856 tons of trash was collected by Clean Slate workers

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