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A Tough Ask: Are Panhandlers After a Hand Out, Or a Hand Up?

Differing views on an increasingly obvious problem across the streets of pandemic-hit America

A Tough Ask: Are Panhandlers After a Hand Out, Or a Hand Up?
Women walk by a panhandler along Madison Avenue, one of Manhattan's premier shopping and residential streets in this 2011 file photo taken in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Allan Stein
Allan Stein
10/11/2022|Updated: 10/12/2022
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COTTONWOOD, Ariz.—Catherine Schwab of Michigan sat in a folding chair holding a cardboard sign in the dry heat of the afternoon sun.

“Please Help,” the sign in magic marker said.

Allan Stein
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Allan Stein is a national reporter for The Epoch Times based in Arizona.
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