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The Black Market
How big is the Black Market for school supplies? I can’t imagine anyone stealing school supplies – pencils, notebooks, spirals, erasers, etc. The supplies are practically free anyway (have you checked Staples lately – we bought spirals for .06 cents and pencils for .02 cents each). And if you are really poor – they are free. Almost every City, and multitudes of fraternal organizations I know about, hand out free school supplies, along with backpacks and such, at the beginning of each school year. Police in Maine are looking for a man who made off with pencils, notebooks, crayons and other school supplies that were meant to fill backpacks to be given…