Apparently Rudy Giuliani has a new job....

clipped from www.dailystar.com.lb Baghdad kicks off campaign against beggars BAGHDAD: Baghdad on Monday launched a tough new initiative to combat begging by forcing the fast growing number of panhandlers off busy streets and into new social programs. The plan aims to remove the huge proliferation of beggars, many of them children, in the Iraqi capital in the wake of the 2003 US-led invasion that sparked job losses among many of the city's 7 million residents.

"While squeegee men are a feature of life in many cities around the world, the phenomenon first became prevalent in New York City in the 1980s.^{[citation needed]} The usual procedure would involve groups of squeegee men surrounding cars stopped in traffic. Although some were merely providing a service, in other cases the windshield-washing would be carried out without asking, often perfunctory in nature, and followed by demands for payment. Upon his election, mayor Rudy Giuliani famously embarked on a crusade against squeegee men as part of his quality-of-life campaign, claiming that their near-ubiquitous presence created an environment of disorder that encouraged more serious crime to flourish. Squeegee men disappeared from city streets during Giuliani's mayoralty and have yet to reappear in significant numbers."

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