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Give and take: Credentials could aid panhandling

  • Written by Brendan O'Flaherty, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
imagePeople have always asked for alms, including the men depicted in this 17th-century European etching.Wenceslaus Hollar/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio recently said on a radio show that he would like to ban panhandling but wouldn’t try because the courts wouldn’t allow it. Many panhandlers “are not...

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