WSJ on Street Vendors
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The Wall Street Journal has a news article under the headline "Street Vendors Cost the City Millions." It begins:

Street vendors are costing the city millions in enforcement and in uncollected fines.

Roughly $14.9 million dollars in fines went uncollected as of Dec. 15, 2009. Permitting, regulation and enforcement of vendors cost the city at least $7.4 million in fiscal year 2009, with most of the cost attributed to the police's street peddling enforcement unit, according to the nonpartisan Independent Budget Office.

Street vending revenues in 2009 came to about $1.4 million.

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WSJ on Street Vendors
futureofcapitalism.com

The Wall Street Journal has a news article under the headline "Street Vendors Cost the City Millions." It begins:

Street vendors are costing the city millions in enforcement and in uncollected fines.

Roughly $14.9 million dollars in fines went uncollected as of Dec. 15, 2009. Permitting, regulation and enforcement of vendors cost the city at least $7.4 million in fiscal year 2009, with most of the cost attributed to the police's street peddling enforcement unit, according to the nonpartisan Independent Budget Office.

Street vending revenues in 2009 came to about $1.4 million.

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