{"id":5169,"date":"2012-07-14T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2012-07-14T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T09:07:10","slug":"a-new-plan-to-reduce-the-number-of-beggars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-new-plan-to-reduce-the-number-of-beggars\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Plan To Reduce The Number Of Beggars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/071012_0554_ANewPlanToR1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco has an innovative new plan to deal with the problem of pan-handlers lining the streets writes Heather Knight. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evidence suggests that beggars in San Francisco have housing, but pan-handle to supplement their income or because they have nothing else to do.<\/li>\n<li>At the same time the economic recession has caused pet owners to abandon their dogs. A minority of these dogs require special treatment and care from people with a lot of time.<\/li>\n<li>The city plans to offer to pay beggars $50-$75 a week to take care of these dogs, and promises to pay all associated dog expenses.<\/li>\n<li>Candidates need to be living in a house, can&#8217;t be severely mentally ill, can&#8217;t have a history of violence, must seek treatment if they have addictions, and must give up begging if they want to keep the dogs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including the safeguards put in place for both the pan-handlers and the dogs, what happens to dogs that are not socialized to interact with humans, how many dogs are left in the shelters, what happens when a human-dog pairing isn&#8217;t deemed a good match, other ways that the city has tried to deal with the problem of pan-handing, and the therapeutic effect of dogs, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/SF-tries-to-curb-panhandling-with-puppies-3631490.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/SF-tries-to-curb-panhandling-with-puppies-3631490.php\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/06\/15\/freak-est-links-53\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco has an innovative new plan to deal with the problem of pan-handlers lining the streets writes Heather Knight. Highlights include: Evidence suggests that beggars in San Francisco have housing, but pan-handle to supplement their income or because they have nothing else to do. At the same time the economic recession has caused pet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/071012_0554_ANewPlanToR1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}