Panhandling can be more lucrative than a full-time job?!?! [View all]
In Lexington, Kentucky, there's a newly-launched program to help street people find full-time employment at $9 an hour.
A local radio deejay decided to go undercover to try his luck at panhandling because he wasn't convinced that $9/hr. would be enough to lure some homeless people off the streets.
He figures he made about $40/hr. Granted, that's not a regular, sustained wage and there are no job benefits that come with panhandling, other than setting your own hours, I suppose. But I have heard from people in a few major cities that they know of panhandlers who have routinely collected hundreds of dollars a day.
Makes you think.
http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/City-launches-program-to-help-provide-Lexington-panhandlers-with-jobs-420365913.html
http://www.lex18.com/story/35332528/local-radio-personality-goes-undercover-as-panhandler
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