https://github.com/vigorousnorth/Maine-commuting-labor

Interactive maps showing time and labor value lost to long commutes in the state of Maine
https://github.com/vigorousnorth/Maine-commuting-labor

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Interactive maps showing time and labor value lost to long commutes in the state of Maine

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vigorousnorth/Maine-commuting-labor
• Owner: vigorousnorth
• Created: 2019-03-05T17:45:04.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-03-05T18:00:12.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T00:51:03.968Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 109 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Commuting labor in Maine

In the midst of a serious statewide labor shortage, Mainers who have full-time jobs are wasting thousands of potentially productive hours every day in long, unpaid commutes, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

All told, Maine workers spend about 400,000 hours a day chauffering themselves to and from their jobs. But that lost labor is by no means evenly distributed across the state: workers in poorer, more rural areas typically lose more time to commuting, while wealther coastal regions lose less: