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Transportation Facts
April 14, 2000
Transportation is a barrier to employment. Both welfare recipients and employers find that the
lack of transportation is a significant barrier to work.
In Michigan, transportation was the most common barrier among welfare recipients
surveyed: nearly half (47%) lacked access to a car and/or did not have a driver's license, and
transportation was one of the most important factors in whether someone was working - as
significant as a high school diploma. Welfare recipients without a transportation barrier are
55% more likely to work than those with transportation issues. (Danziger, February 2000)
Based on surveys by Wirthlin Worldwide, businesses in The Welfare to Work Partnership
consistently cite transportation as among the top three barriers for welfare recipients they
have hired, and one of the top issues affecting retention for these employees. More than half
of businesses surveyed find employee transportation to be a problem, with 33% saying that
public transportation routes do not run near their companies and 18% saying public
transportation does not operate during hours needed to get workers to their jobs. (From 1998
Wirthlin Survey, cited in Welfare to Work Partnership's publication "The Road to Work,"
released 8/99).
In Connecticut, 40% of welfare recipients report that transportation is a barrier to
employment. (Welfare Research Group, 1997)
Car ownership. Recent data show that welfare recipients and other low income workers with cars
are significantly more likely to be working.
Data from the Urban Institute's National Survey of American Families show that as of 1997,
47% of families on welfare and 63% of low-income families (below 100% of poverty level)
have a car, compared to 97% of higher income families (above 200% of poverty). Twice as
many families receiving welfare that had a car were working than families on welfare who
did not have a car. Similarly, 25% more low-income families with a car were working than
those without a car.
For welfare recipients in Los Angeles, those with a car are 32 percent more likely to get a
job. ("Car Ownership and Welfare-to-Work," UCLA Working paper, Paul Ong, 2/14/00)
Among welfare recipients with a job, those with a car earn 60 percent more than those
without a car. ("Work and Automobile Ownership among Welfare Recipients," Social Work
Research, Paul Ong, December 1996)
In the words of one single father from upstate New York working his way off welfare, "I live
in
an
area where there is very limited public transportation Sometimes I was
unable
to
borrow a vehicle a situation that had made it hard for me to carry out my responsibilities to
my family and hold down a full-time job."
Adequacy and use of public transportation. Existing public transit often doesn't link to suburban
job opportunities, cover evening and weekend hours, or serve many rural communities.
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