Alcoholics in Amsterdam paid in beer and cigarettes to clean streets

Alcoholics in Amsterdam are being paid in beer and cigarettes to clean the streets.

Alcoholics in Amsterdam paid in beer and cigarettes to clean streets

Alcoholics in Amsterdam are being paid in beer and cigarettes to clean the streets.

The homeless workers are given two cans in the morning, two at lunchtime and one at the end of the day in exchange for sweeping the streets in the Dutch city as well as $10 and half a packet of rolling tobacco.

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