That's very interesting information. Could you please post the link to the interview or article? Thanks,Genie Ogden --- On Tue, 11/23/10, Mark Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Mark Evans <[email protected]> Subject: [Bikies] Transportation As Social Justice Issue To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 3:38 PM 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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