Doe fund source??

[Marta Russell]

In a previous post, there was discussion about an organization in New
York city called the Doe Fund which runs a program called "Ready,
Willing, & Able." This organization takes homeless ex-drug addicts,
"rehabilitates" them, and lends them to the city where they collect
trash from street litter baskets and are apparently taking over work
that used to be done by unionized sanitation workers.

Also supposedly the Ready, Willing, & Able organization is supposed to
pay a minimum wage but was taken to court  for paying workfare workers
only $2-3 an hour under the guise of "educational” training.

Because I want to use this workfare example in an article I'm working
on, I contacted the Doe fund to see what they had to say.  They deny
everything.  Does anyone have a source  for the allegations - I could
find nothing in the New York Times or any other search engine.

Would the Village Voice have covered the story maybe??  Perhaps the city
sanitation workers union knows, does anyone know what they are called
exactly??

Thanks in advance,
Marta