Transit, Employment and Women on Welfare
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چکیده
Inadequate transportation has emerged as a major bamer to employment for welfare reelplents required to tranmtlon from pubhc assistance to employment under welfare reform. Transportatmn is a particularly daunting barrier for single women without access to a household car This study uses multivariate techmques to examine whether nearby transit access impacts the emplobanent outcomes of th~s populatlon m Los Angeles County Results show that the level c)ftranslt service near a reclplent’s home makes a moderate, yet statlshcally mgmficant, contnbutlon to increasing the probablhty of employment and transit use for work-related trips ttowever, recipients who use public transit t~ace multiple problems, including overcrowding and lnfrequen’t service [Keywords" transit access, transit usage, employment, women on welfare]
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