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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

City offers homeless a one-way ticket out of town

If you're homeless and can't cut it in New York, the city has your one-way ticket outta here - to anywhere in the world - on the house.

The free ride is part of a $500,000-a-year Bloomberg administration program to keep the homeless out of the shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family, The New York Times reported.

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