Oct. 5—JAMESTOWN — More than 1,100 people commute daily from other counties to Stutsman County for work, according to the most recent data from the American Community Survey. But that number could ...

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Two years ago, you may have been speed walking into your workplace, juggling a spilling coffee cup and a stank attitude because your commute, to put it frankly, sucked. Then the pandemic hit, changing ...

An aversion to car ownership has resulted in a two flights, two trains, and a bus trip across two states each week for Center ...

According to an Empirical Research in Economics study, if your total commute increases by an hour, your income needs to increase by at least 40 percent to pay off in terms of pers ...

Thanks to credit-card points, though, I often travel at virtually no cost. I've also developed best practices for saving money, like booking flights during seasonal sales. As a college professor who ...

It’s a decision that almost everyone finds themselves faced with at some point—accept a job that pays more money even though it requires a longer commute, or stay in your current position. A lucrative ...

The average American’s commute to work is 25.5 minutes each way, according to a report in USA Today. That’s about 51 minutes a day getting to and from work, or about 204 hours a year spent commuting.

As a college professor who lives in Los Angeles but teaches in San Jose, I fly to work on a weekly basis. I used to live in the San Jose area before the COVID-19 pandemic, but when my workplace went ...