The two groups of about ten people work three days a week cleaning city streets and are paid ten euros a day for their labor, along with a half-packet of rolling tobacco and five cans of beer. The men start the day off with two cans, have another two .... Amsterdam's plan to pay alcoholics in beer is actually not a bad ideaThe Week Magazine Amsterdam Is Paying Alcoholics In Beer To Clean Its StreetsBusiness Insider Alcoholics paid in beer for cleaning streets in Amsterdameuronews TIME -CBS News -USA TODAY all 104 news articles »