SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Squeegee, Unemployment Benefits, Disability Insurance
14 Jul 2014
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; much data is based on those in shelters. In any given night, there is roughly 2000 youth who are homeless (kids who are visibly homeless) Hagan & mccarthy: study of street youth in toronto and vancouver, wanted to know whether kids who were involved in crime (theft, drug dealing. Interested in how they made money through crime. 15% said that they made money through a job (most were part- time and typical jobs) 15% said they made money through government assistance (i. e. emergency welfare, employment insurance, disability insurance, Pna (personal needs assistance get on a weekly basis if your resigning in a shelter; 25$/ week) 12 % said that they made most of their from panhandling (average money was ) (cid:224) a lot of the kids said they would never do that because of humiliation. 17% said that they made money from squeegeeing (cid:224) two types: 1)
