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...There are over sixty active vendors right now. But since its inception in 1992, Spare Change has provided an income for more than a thousand people--50 percent of whom have moved onwards and upwards to other jobs and 60 percent of whom secured housing...
...Nearly anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness can work at Spare Change as long as he or she is sober and courteous. Vendors must obtain ID cards and then can purchase the rag for a quarter per issue to resell it at a 400 percent markup at a dollar. The seventy-five cents profit per issue they get to pocket...
...Square," Shorey says. But there are certainly more than five or six stationed along Mass. Ave., waiting to lessen the weighty wallets of Cantabrigians. "I think the people in Cambridge are generally more generous than in Boston," says Shorey, indicating the attraction of Harvard Square. Conveniently, Spare Change's production is right in the Square at 1151 Mass...
...Bootlegging Spare Change vendor ID cards is not unheard of. It's especially popular for scamming more money than the cover price of the paper when Spare Change vendors campaign for fundraising. "People will act as vendors who aren't really vendors," Shorey says. "Usually most of that scamming happens down at Downtown Crossing," he's quick...
...assume that Shorey is also a drug user. "After I sold a paper yesterday, a random woman leaving the bank said 'I don't support drug habits,' as she walked by." Shorey was none too pleased, and when the woman made a point of telling a recent purchaser of Spare Change that Shorey was on drugs, he got in her face. The police came, but Shorey's patron defended him. "Sometimes you have to be aggressive," he says...