{"id":11094,"date":"2023-07-02T19:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11094"},"modified":"2023-07-02T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:41:43","slug":"how-cars-fuel-racial-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11094","title":{"rendered":"How cars fuel racial inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;As of 2021, about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/repository.law.umich.edu\/mjlr\/vol54\/iss4\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 million Americans had their driver\u2019s licenses suspended<\/a>&nbsp;due to nonpayment of fines and fees. It took Moseley-Sayles nearly a decade \u2014 by which time she\u2019d paid off her initial ticket plus an additional $5,000 in warrant fees and other fines \u2014 to get her license reinstated. In the interim, she faced a conundrum that millions who have suspended licenses must contend with each year: Taking away a license doesn\u2019t take away a person\u2019s need to drive. Moseley-Sayles had to keep using her car and hope that she wasn\u2019t pulled over and arrested for it.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23735896\/racism-car-ownership-driving-violence-traffic-violations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23735896\/racism-car-ownership-driving-violence-traffic-violations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As of 2021, about 11 million Americans had their driver\u2019s licenses suspended due to nonpayment of fines and fees. It took Moseley-Sayles nearly a decade \u2014 by which time she\u2019d paid off her initial ticket plus an additional $5,000 in warrant fees and other fines \u2014 to get her license reinstated. In the interim, she faced a conundrum that millions who have suspended licenses must contend with each year: Taking away a license doesn\u2019t take away a person\u2019s need to drive. Moseley-Sayles had to keep using her car and hope that she wasn\u2019t pulled over and arrested for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1092,363,642,1300],"class_list":["post-11094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cars","tag-inequality","tag-race","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11095,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11094\/revisions\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}