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When transportation poverty creates impossible workplace dilemmas

My boss keeps asking me to stay late for projects that are not urgent but I take the bus and the last one leaves at 6:30pm and I cannot afford to say no to overtime.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic vulnerability forces compliance with unreasonable demands that more privileged workers could resist.

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“Where Are You with Class and structural disadvantage?”

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