Easy Money
The KIRO news team followed four panhandlers and filmed them counting a stack of bills before they boarded a bus. They spoke to each other in Romanian and Romani and discussed how much money they’d made that day while the little boy who accompanied them played on an iPhone.
“The niece got 100 bucks. We need more dollars,” one woman said. After a 70-minute bus ride, the four women and boy got off and walked to an apartment complex that charges as much as $2,220 for rent per month.