panhandling

Need money fast? Don't have what it takes to stand out by the freeway with a sign and your hand out? Fortunately, you live in a new era, when even the begging can be done online in the comfort and safety of your own home. (Or the library.) Yesterday as a friend of mine was putting groceries into...

New research by a Texas A&M professor confirms what any panhandler knows; men and women approach charitable giving in a different and predictable way. Hint- if you're planning to stand on a city street, hat in hand, target men. Researcher Karen Winterich found that charitable behavior can be...

Beijing took some heat in the press for sweeping its streets of the homeless before the Olympic circus came to town, but China's government isn't the only one trying to banish the disadvantaged from places where visitors tread.According to the main Atlanta newspaper, the Journal-Constitution, cops...

The AP reported this week that a police survey of panhandlers outside a Wal-Mart in Coos Bay, OR showed they pull in as much as $300 a day. Earlier this year, Jennifer Margulis of the Oregon Mail Tribune reported on a couple who described themselves as "affluent beggars," who made between $300 and...