"Good 5 Cent Cigar"----Student newspaper at the University of Rhode Island

See the video:

http://www.tian.cc/2005_11_01_archive.html

    A Phoenix news crew (CBS TV5) with hidden cameras went around the city to see if  homeless people would actually accept work as their cardboard signs claimed. The station offered $20 to each homeless person in exchange for one hour of landscaping work.

    The result:  Most homeless people would rather stand at street corners to wait for hand-outs than do actual work.

    Only one of a series of beggars actually took them up on the offer and worked for an hour.