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March 26, 2015

Distance grows between housing and jobs: report

  • Increasing sprawl means that the number of nearby jobs can fall even when overall employment grows.
    • By PAUL WISEMAN
    AP Economics Writer

    WASHINGTON — Remember the Detroit man who walked 21 miles to work?

    James Robertson's arduous daily journey back and forth to a low-wage factory job, widely reported last month, is just an extreme version of an increasingly common problem: Finding a job near home is getting harder for millions of American workers. And long commutes are especially tough on the poor and on blacks and Hispanics.


     
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