Study: It's getting tougher to find a job near home, especially if you're poor
March 24, 2015 at 00:02 AM EDT
Remember the Detroit man who walked 21 miles to work? James Robertson's arduous daily journey back and forth to a low-wage factory job, widely reported last month, is just an extreme version of an increasingly common problem: Finding a job near home is getting harder for millions of American workers.
