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''Real Change'' is a weekly progressive street newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, USA written by professional staff and sold by self-employed vendors, many of whom are homeless. The paper provides them with an alternative to panhandling and covers a variety of social justice issues, including homelessness and poverty. It became weekly in 2005, making it the second American street newspaper ever to be published weekly. Real Change is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with an annual budget of 950,000 dollars. ==History and Circulation== ''Real Change'' has been published by the Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project since 1994;〔 the paper's founder, Tim Harris, founded the ''Spare Change News'' street newspaper in the Boston area in 1992. After moving to Seattle in 1994, he started ''Real Change''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KUOW 94.9 FM Seattle interview, The Conversation )roughly at 10:30 into interview〕 as a monthly paper with only one staff member. Later, the paper started producing every other week.〔 In February 2005, ''Real Change'' began publishing weekly due to increasing interest and sales, making it the second street newspaper in the country to do so.〔''StreetWise'', a Chicago street newspaper, went weekly in 1998. ( )〕 In addition to becoming a weekly newspaper, it hired several professional journalists shifting its focus to become a broadly progressive alternative paper.〔〔 As a biweekly, it sold 18,000 copies every two weeks;〔 and now has a weekly circulation of 16,000 papers. In April 2013, the paper's price increased from one dollar to two dollars and was the sixth street newspaper to do so. In 2012, it sold 872,562 copies and raised 957,949 dollars: 68.42 percent from donations and grants; 31.26 percent from circulation, advertising and subscriptions; and 0.32 percent from other sources. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Real Change」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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