Comparing craigslist “help wanted” listings for jobs that require private transportation. New York City, which spends $850 per person annually on public transportation operations, has six listings. St. Louis has 53 listings; they spend $104 per person on public transportation.

The Brookings Institute published a report on transit access to employers, which notes that moving jobs to office and industrial parks out in the suburbs — aka “job sprawl” — can limit the pool of people who can make it to the job location via public transportation.

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