This gave me an idea. What if they employed some of them in the garden departments. Essentially paid them to do gardening work in the parks. For example, a Japanese garden requires lots of maintenance.
I didn't "want" a regular job because I couldn't successfully hold one down while coping with a lengthy health crisis.
Among other things, I run r/GigWorks on Reddit to try to foster solutions for other people like me who are willing to work but can't make a "normal" job work for them currently.
The key to helping those people is having lots of options so that we have the best chance of meeting some/most/all of their needs. Educational programs, jobs programs, cash payments, assisted/managed living, institutional facilities in someo cases or some combination of these services depending on the person.
Some may say we already have these options - we don’t, at least there are many places in the USA and the rest of the world where they are not generally available to everyone who needs them.