For Americans living in both cities and the suburbs, the options for working close to home are getting slimmer.
The Brookings Institution, looking at U.S. Census Bureau data from 2000 to 2012 for the country’s largest 96 metropolitan areas, found that the number of jobs within a typical commuting distance for suburban residents dropped by 7 percent. For city residents, the drop was only 3 percent.
Image: Workers in the Atlanta metro area commute further to work than almost anywhere else in the United States. (David Kidd)
