During the last four years, the Employment and Training Institute has surveyed central city Milwaukee workers to identify problems they face in finding and keeping employment. Two areas have been repeatedly identified as barriers to employment: child care and getting to jobs which are often in the outlying areas of the metropolitan labor market. This paper is a companion piece to a recently released study, Removing Barriers to Employment: The Child Care-Jobs Equation. For most single parents who are expected to work full-time under current welfare initiatives and who have children needing child care, use of a car is the most practical means of transportation. The difficulties of getting to the child care provider, then to work, back to the child care provider and home contribute to job retention problems, particularly for single parents lacking a family car or a valid driver's license. |