Google, still not evil

Google, in one of those pretty nifty, innovative type moves, is giving a free phone number with voicemail box to every homeless person in San Francisco. Now you can say, as many do, hey Google, why not give food to the starving or medicine to the dying or whatnot. But Google.org has made it clear that they are not giving money to those types of ventures -- there are plenty of reasons why that doesn't work as well as it ought to (infrastructure, corruption, lack of teaching a man to fish, etc.) One of the larger obstacles in getting out of homelessness is the lack of a phone number to put on a job application, or a way to be reached for an interview or follow-up. Google can solve this systemic problem for not a lot of money, then let the people that don't need a handout pull themselves out of the system. Which really works a lot better than just throwing more money at an unsolved problem. Go Google. Keep not being evil!