A New York Times report today says that access to reasonable transportation is a key to families' ability to get out of poverty — in fact, it's the single biggest factor emerging in an ongoing Harvard study of upward mobility. School test scores, neighborhood crime and even the presence of two parents are less important. All that's especially true in places with notoriously long commutes -- Hello, Seattle?
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