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How Car Ownership Helps the Working Poor Get Ahead

"The families who had cars were more likely to get access to high-quality neighborhoods—and they were more likely to get jobs if they didn't have jobs already, and keep jobs if they already had jobs, than those households who did not have cars," says Rolf Pendall, director of the Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center. Access to public transit was associated with keeping a job but not with getting one.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/economic-empowerment/how-car-ownership-helps-the-working-poor-get-ahead-20140724

Should we subsidize cars the way we subsidize housing?

#housing