NAME: Prim Age: 30 Place: ATM machine, Broadway and Houston, New York City Time: 4:30PM Weekday

NEEDCOM:   How long have you been panhandling?     PRIM:   About a year and a half.     NEEDCOM:   How often do you work?     PRIM:   I've been doing it for a year and a half. I stopped because, um, I had somewhere to live. But now ... I been burned out, so I started back three months ago. 'Cause I got burned out.     NEEDCOM:   Burned out?     PRIM:   Of my apartment. I don't get public assistance.     NEEDCOM:   How much money do you make on a good day?     PRIM:   Twenty-five dollars an hour. Twenty to twenty-five dollars an hour. That's in an hour. And when it's going like that, I'll wait three hours, and then I'll go.     NEEDCOM:   You're waiting to earn a certain amount?     PRIM:   Right, then I'll leave.

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