Laithum is one of dozens in Detroit who spend their day trolling the streets begging for spare change.
That's a nice bit of spare change for the chancellor, especially one whose government wants to "make work pay".
But if those workers have any spare change, could investing in Tiffany give them a share of the trickle-down effect?
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Got some spare change for a new Ed Begley Jr. series?
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Services such as Google's AdSense, which places text advertisements on blogs and generates a few cents per mouse click, might bring in some spare change.
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Soon enough, this fast and beautiful smartphone is going to find a new life in a drawer that holds my spare change, sunglasses, checkbook and various receipts.
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If the government program is unlikely to help consumers, it is putting a little spare change in the pockets of the companies that won the storage contracts.
With a population of 1.4 billion and no social safety nets like rich nations, the working class there are a sneeze away from begging their neighbors for spare change.
Walking home from the movie theater years ago with quarters jingling in her purse, Wendy Covington always carried spare change in case she needed to use the pay phone.
Low emissions, the use of alternative fuels or a mileage of 50 miles to the gallon or better will keep you from looking for that spare change under the floor mats.
For many kids who are threatened by disease, natural disasters and war in places like Somalia, Bangladesh, Myanmar and too many other developing countries, this spare change has meant the difference between thriving and merely surviving, health and illness, even life and death.
In fact, thanks to technology, the pleas to spare some change for those in need now stretches on all year - with many of the requests coming from friends and family.
Nothing that might sting, nothing big -- just the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters that normally languish behind the couch, in old winter coats, on the floor of the car, or in the good ole spare-change-bowl-by-the-door.
Hazell's defence counsel Lord Carlile said the change of plea was to spare Tia's family further anguish.
Those deemed to have spare rooms will get less benefit - a change dubbed the "bedroom tax" by the UK government's political opponents.
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Tenants with spare bedrooms will see their housing benefit cut when the change is introduced next April.
Mr Field also said the police feared that the housing benefit change would encourage landlords to make up the difference by letting out their spare room to grow cannabis.
It has calculated that the policy change would result in about 27, 000 additional registrations, which could potentially be covered by the spare capacity in the system currently, although it acknowledged there would be some additional costs such as staffing.
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