Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day’s work, plus €10 and tobacco.
Amsterdam has come up with a controversial way to get alcoholics off the streets: Pay them beer to clean said streets.
AFP reports that the Rainbow Foundation Project, which is partially funded by the Dutch government, pays alcoholics 10 euros along with a half-packet of rolling tobacco and five cans of beer, for a full day’s work.