In 2020, Virginia Martin lived two and a half miles from her office. Today, the distance between her work and home is 156. Ms. Martin, 37, used to live in Durham, N.C., and drove about 10 minutes to her job as a librarian at Duke. After the onset of remote work, Ms. Martin got her […]
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Congestion Pricing Plan Riles New Jersey Political Leaders
The mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., called New York’s congestion pricing plan “doormat treatment.” A New Jersey congressman said pricing details disclosed for the first time late Wednesday showed that New York was “sticking it to Jersey families.” Gov. Philip D. Murphy insisted that “as a conceptual matter,” he supports congestion pricing, but not this […]
Read MoreWith I-10 Closed by Fire Damage, Los Angeles Drivers Find Ways to Cope
In a city of sprawl, the 10 freeway is a main character, running across the belly of Los Angeles and offering a straight shot from downtown to the Pacific Ocean — with a hazy glimpse of the Hollywood sign along the way. It also serves as a central artery for commuters making their way to […]
Read MoreWhat We Know About the Effects of Remote Work
When workplaces are remade by a tectonic shift — women flooding into the work force, the rise of computing — it typically takes some time for economists, psychologists, sociologists and other scholars to gather data on its effects. So when employers moved suddenly to adopt remote work during the pandemic, with the share of employed […]
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