Hobo by the store

Mrs. Robinson said:
They generally bring in about 60K a year panhandling. Tax free. Some use their kids to gain sympathy. There are many services available to help truly homeless people-you are better off helping them to know about the services that are available to them. Just giving them money really is not helpful.
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Mrs. Robinson, what is your source for the "60K a year" number?
 
Sunny, I’m also wondering about that. While there may be some – a few - panhandlers and cons bringing in 60k, I don’t believe that’s the case with very many.

Our local news did a story (actually an experiment) where a reporter posed as a beggar in the downtown area. (This is a large city.) He brought in $13 for an entire day. In order to make $60K one would have to get $165/day. That’s really extreme. I mean, c'mon, if panhandling was that profitable, droves of people would quit their jobs right now.

According to this article, 60% make about $25/day.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/30/2856411/panhandling-stats/
 

I must have a weird mind. When I see the title of this post I automatically "see" it to the tune of "Strangers in the night". "Hobo by the store"....think about it.
 
The original post said his sign read "out of work". How did he become a "homeless hobo" in this thread?
 
The title of the thread reads "Hobo by the store," hobos are homeless so if person is a hobo and by nature homeless, they are one in the same. NO?

There may be a difference in that not all homeless people are hobos, matter of semantics though in how one uses the term hobo, but, a hobo, is homeless, to be classified a hobo, they are without a residence generally moving from place to place.
 
Trailer for sale or rent..................Rooms to let 50 cents........ no phone no pool no pets..... I ain't got no cigarettes..


It just popped into my mind.
 
"Hobo" is the old-school term - I believe it first came about with the groups of people (usually men) traveling by train to find work during the Great Depression.

There were hobo "camps" back then, just as there are homeless "camps" today, but I would think the biggest difference between the two terms would be the mobility of the hobos - don't homeless folks tend to stay in one place once they find a good one?
 
Being out of work doesn't necessarily mean one is homeless. Imo the threadstarter made various assumptions (such as referring to the man as a hobo) which were off-base, at best
 
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SifuPhil said:
"Hobo" is the old-school term - I believe it first came about with the groups of people (usually men) traveling by train to find work during the Great Depression.

There were hobo "camps" back then, just as there are homeless "camps" today, but I would think the biggest difference between the two terms would be the mobility of the hobos - don't homeless folks tend to stay in one place once they find a good one?
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Exactly right Phil.
 
applecruncher said:
Sunny, I’m also wondering about that. While there may be some – a few - panhandlers and cons bringing in 60k, I don’t believe that’s the case with very many.

Our local news did a story (actually an experiment) where a reporter posed as a beggar in the downtown area. (This is a large city.) He brought in $13 for an entire day. In order to make $60K one would have to get $165/day. That’s really extreme. I mean, c'mon, if panhandling was that profitable, droves of people would quit their jobs right now.

According to this article, 60% make about $25/day.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/30/2856411/panhandling-stats/
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I think you're right about this.
 
Well, I guess that's a matter to take up with the person who started the thread, I'm just a tack on to what the title indicated, I don't know if the man was any of the mentioned. For all I know, he could have been an ad exec or student, or any other thing, performing an experiment.

But, the question I responded to was how does hobo = homeless and for that, my answer stands, but we can keep moving the cheese at any moment and that answer to the first question still won't change.

PS, hobo isn't a term I use for anyone, just relaying info for the question asked. I'm familiar with the term from old movies like the Bowery boys.
 
SifuPhil said:
"Hobo" is the old-school term - I believe it first came about with the groups of people (usually men) traveling by train to find work during the Great Depression.

There were hobo "camps" back then, just as there are homeless "camps" today, but I would think the biggest difference between the two terms would be the mobility of the hobos - don't homeless folks tend to stay in one place once they find a good one?
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hobo is a migratory worker or homeless vagabond—especially one who is penniless. The term originated in the Western—probably Northwestern—United States around 1890. Unlike "tramps", who work only when they are forced to, and "bums", who do not work at all, "hobos" are traveling workers.
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... and they were probably thrown off the drag by the bull-moose. They'd have been better off holding the lady down, at least until they got to the big rock candy mountain.
 

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