For deaf or otherwise disabled panhandlers, their situation may be even uglier than you imagine:
Back when I lived in NYC, there were a lot of deaf-mute panhandlers, who even had little cards explaining they were deaf. Except, it eventually turned out they were in fact slaves, being forced to panhandle for the profit of a small ring of human traffickers. (Remember, they couldn't tell anyone, and they were clearly not trained in sign language.)
Back when I lived in NYC, there were a lot of deaf-mute panhandlers, who even had little cards explaining they were deaf. Except, it eventually turned out they were in fact slaves, being forced to panhandle for the profit of a small ring of human traffickers. (Remember, they couldn't tell anyone, and they were clearly not trained in sign language.)
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