Article: San Francisco official wants bond projects tied to welfare jobs.(Tom Ammiano)

As city officials here consider adding more than $300 million of bond measures to the ballot, one elected leader is advancing a proposal to hire welfare recipients for a quarter of the jobs created by the bond-financed projects.

The novel welfare proposal comes as San Francisco supervisors are scheduled to vote today on whether to place four bond measures worth $323 million on the June citywide ballot.

Those measures are: $130 million of general obligation bonds for schools, $100 million of lease-revenue bonds to help the San Francisco 49ers pay for a new football stadium, $48 million of GOs for the San Francisco Zoo, and another $45 million for community ...

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