Here is an excellent article/interview with Angela Glover Blackwell
regarding this same issue.
Note about a third of the way down where she points out:
"...the bottom fifth of the nation, the poorest fifth of Americans,
spend *42 percent of their annual household budget on an automobile
budget,* more than twice the national average. So for people who are
poor, owning an automobile is a burdensome thing.
Nearly 25 percent of African-Americans do not have access to a car,
compared that with 7 percent of non-Hispanic whites. You have nearly the
same number of Latinos who do not have access to a car. So this is huge,
this is not an isolated problem. For people who are spending too much of
their income -- over 40 percent just to own a car -- clearly this has a
devastating impact on the economy in terms of all of the things that
people cannot do and cannot participate in."
I think I posted this on Paul Ryan's page. I should post it to Scott
Walker too. I wrote him a letter over the weekend... but hey, we love
letters, lots and lots of letters so I'll send another.
Mark Evans
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