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3. Tales from the front

Author

Ries-Taggart, Jennifer

Subjects
Poor -- Transportation, Public libraries -- Social aspects, Immigrants -- Social aspects, Educational programs -- Evaluation, Public transportation -- Services, Library and information science
Published
2008

4. Reduce Subway Fares for Poor New Yorkers

Subjects
New York. Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Planning, Passenger rail services -- Prices and rates, Railroads -- Tickets, Poor -- Transportation, Commuters -- Finance, Company business planning, Company financing, Company pricing policy, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

The news that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority may soon raise subway and bus fares by 25 cents -- to $3 -- has given urgency to an idea gathering support in [...]

Published
2016

5. Mass transit and the poor

Author

Anderson, George M.

Subjects
Transportation policy -- Analysis, Poor -- Transportation, Local transit -- Political aspects, Miami, Florida -- Transportation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Transportation
Published
1989

6. MTA Strike Interrupts Health Care: Many of L.A. County's poorest residents are going without medical care because they can't get to doctors or hospitals

Author

Bernstein, Sharon

Subjects
Los Angeles County, California. Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Labor relations, Los Angeles County, California. Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Services, California. Department of Health Services. Medical Services. Medi-Cal -- Services, Los Angeles County, California -- Health aspects, Los Angeles County, California -- Transportation, Los Angeles County, California -- Economic aspects, Poor -- Transportation, Poor -- Health aspects, Strikes -- Economic aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Published
2003

7. For Working Poor, Rides Are a Lifeline

Author

Marosi, Richard

Subjects
Los Angeles County, California. Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Labor relations, Taxicabs -- Economic aspects, Poor -- Transportation, Commuters -- Demographic aspects, Commuters -- Transportation, Strikes -- Influence, Strikes -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Published
2003

11. L.A. strike expected to hurt low-wage workers

Author

Binkley, Christina

Subjects
Los Angeles County, California. Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Labor relations, Los Angeles, California -- Labor relations, Strikes -- Influence, Poor -- Transportation, Bus drivers -- Labor relations, Railroad engineers -- Labor relations, Business, Business, general
Published
2000

13. MTA faces a major fork in the road

Author

Rabin, Jeffrey L.

Subjects
Los Angeles, California -- Transportation, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Cases, Los Angeles, California. City Council -- Transportation policy, Civil rights -- Cases, Poor -- Transportation
Published
1999

14. Smog plan seeks relief for poor

Author

Lifsher, Marc

Subjects
California. Bureau of Automotive Repair -- Environmental policy, Air quality management -- Laws, regulations and rules, Motor vehicles -- Maintenance and repair, Automobiles -- Pollution control devices, Poor -- Transportation, Business, Business, general
Published
1998

15. Welfare's urban poor need a lift - to suburban jobs

Author

Phillips, Michael M.

Subjects
Local transit -- Services, Welfare recipients -- Employment, Poor -- Transportation, Metropolitan areas -- Transportation, Business, Business, general
Published
1997

16. City buses are newest vehicle to help inner-city workers

Author

Wood, Daniel B.

Subjects
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Services, Bus lines -- Services, Local transit -- Influence, Poor -- Transportation, Inner cities -- Transportation, Commuting -- Economic aspects
Published
1997

17. Wisconsin picks up the tab

Author

Nelson, Toya M.

Subjects
Wisconsin. Department of Transportation -- Social policy, Commuting -- Innovations, Poor -- Transportation, Local transit -- Innovations, Business, Government
Abstract

The Wisconsin Transportation Dept's Job-Ride program, since its 1989 inception, has transported over 3,200 low-income Milwaukee residents to suburban jobs. The program was developed as part of a welfare-reform initiative and was intended to promote employment among public-aid recipients. Most Milwaukee-area employment growth has occurred in the suburbs.

Published
1993

18. Judges taking over the subway

Author

Will, George F.

Subjects
New York, New York. Transit Authority -- Cases, Poor -- Transportation, Discrimination -- Cases, Subways -- Prices and rates, Local transit -- Cases, Judicial power -- Analysis
Published
1996

19. It's class, not race

Author

Cohen, Richard

Subjects
New York. Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Prices and rates, Local transit -- Demographic aspects, Poor -- Transportation, Race discrimination -- Cases, Transportation -- Demographic aspects, Subways -- Prices and rates
Published
1995

20. But is it a matter of rich (rail) vs. poor (bus)?

Author

Fulton, William

Subjects
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Management, Federal aid to transportation -- Economic aspects, Poor -- Transportation, Rich -- Transportation, Local transit -- Management
Published
1994

22. Subsidize the poor, not the well-off

Author

Kayden, Xandra

Subjects
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Finance, Local transit -- Social aspects, Poor -- Transportation
Published
1994

24. Don't shortchange Southeast

Subjects
Washington Metrorail -- Planning, Bus lines -- Washington, D.C., Poor -- Transportation, Railroads -- Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. -- Transportation
Published
1991

25. Good news

Subjects
West Virginia. Department of Health and Human Resources -- Social aspects, West Virginia Council of Churches -- Social aspects, Poor -- Transportation, West Virginia -- Social aspects
Abstract

The Good News Mountaineer Garage is literally putting wheels under a great idea that addresses transportation problems that can be a barrier to employment The West Virginia Council of Churches, […]

Published
2001

26. Inner-city workers get rides to suburban jobs; federal program transports poor to where jobs are

Author

Steers, Stuart

Subjects
Denver, Colorado -- Services, Workers -- Transportation, Transportation policy, Poor -- Transportation, High speed ground transportation, Business, Business, regional
Abstract

Employers in Denver's booming southern suburbs are having a hard time filling entry-level positions. At the same time, residents of inner-city Denver neighborhoods find it difficult to get anything but [...]

Published
1995

27. Light rail line could put poor of L.A. back on track

Author

Boyarsky, Bill

Subjects
Long Beach, California -- Transportation, Los Angeles, California -- Transportation, Los Angeles, California -- Planning, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority -- Planning, Local transit -- California, Poor -- Transportation, Light rail transit -- California
Published
1983

31. Welfare reform, sprawl, and transportation

Author

Dittmar, Hank

Subjects
Welfare reform -- Demographic aspects, Local transit -- Demographic aspects, Regional economics -- Planning, Poor -- Transportation, Urban transportation policy -- Planning
Abstract

Three important topics, certainly ... but what's the relationship? Actually, the issues of welfare reform, sprawl and transportation are linked in profound and vital ways. This summer when Congress passed […]

Published
1996

32. Yes, Virginia, there is a free lunch

Author

Modic, Stanley J.

Subjects
Aged -- Transportation, Poor -- Transportation, Local transit -- Finance, Business, Business, general
Published
1979

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