“[T]he average cost of owning a car is just shy of $9,500. That may not sound like much until you realize the federal poverty level is $22,350 for a family of four. One-third of low-income African-American households do not have access to an automobile. That figure is 25 percent among low-income Latino families and 12.1 percent for whites. Racial minorities are four times more likely than whites to use public transit to get to work.
“Yet the federal government allocates 80 percent of its transportation funding to highways.”
(via ziatroyano)
See also Michael Mintz, in the Twin Cities Daily Planet, on “the high cost of getting to work, and the suburbanization of poverty.”
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