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**Title:** "What Would You Do?" - Helping the Homeless
**Scenario:** A TV show sets up a hidden camera experiment at a coffee shop to observe how customers react when an employee is berated by a manager (all actors) for giving free food to a homeless person (also an actor).
**Key Observations:**
* Some customers defend the employee's kindness and offer to pay for the homeless person's food.
* Others express concerns about enabling homelessness or the coffee shop becoming a "shelter".
* One customer, a self-described poor student, empathizes with the homeless person and insists on paying for their drink, even when the manager objects.
**Reveal:** The show's host, John Quinones, reveals the experiment to the participants, highlighting the importance of kindness and empathy towards those in need.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, without opinions, with each fact numbered and in short sentences:
1. **Unemployment has increased due to the pandemic**.
2. **A Columbia University projection estimates a 40-45% increase in homelessness by year-end** (based on historical trends).
3. **An incident occurred at a Seattle cafe, Caffe Vita**.
4. **Employees at Caffe Vita were fired for giving food to homeless individuals**.
5. **Protests ensued, and the cafe apologized**.
6. **Caffe Vita is now under new ownership with a welcoming policy**.
7. **A social experiment was conducted at "Espresso Yourself Coffee and Cafe" in St. Louis, Missouri**.
8. **The experiment used hidden cameras and actors (Leah, Bianca, and Tommy, the latter playing a homeless man)**.
9. **John Quinones is the host of the TV show "What Would You Do?" which conducted the experiment**.
10. **The experiment aimed to observe how customers would react to a scenario involving a homeless person being treated kindly or poorly by cafe staff and other customers**.
11. **Multiple interactions were observed, with some customers showing kindness and others expressing disapproval**.
12. **One participant, a self-described poor student, resonated with the homeless actor's situation and chose to help**.