The solution are missions to get these people off drugs, counseling for the troubled, training for a job, and get them into an apartment that is their own space. Human beings deserve to live in dignity and safety. "Homeless" is society, **us* being irresponsible. It's intolerable, but I don't see many of the leftists that scribble here volunteering at the Eugene Mission.

 A minimum wage is a wage that permits people to live without government subsidies of any kind. Anything lower than that amounts to taxpayer support for businesses that won't pay a living wage. Dignity, humanity, faith, and human decency are the solution.