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Chris Rickert: An extra 50 cents per bus ride isn’t much — unless you’re poor, that is

Quoted: “Planning horizons for poor folks are very short — weeks or a month at most — and uncertain, too, so a pass may be too far to go because of both budget and uncertainty,” said Tim Smeeding, a UW-Madison public affairs and economics professor and former director of the university’s Institute for Research on Poverty.