article_snippet: When Alison Norris couldn't find work in Detroit, Alison Norris searched past city limits, ending up with a part-time restaurant job 20 miles away, which takes at least two hours to get to using public transportation.
article_snippet: Alison Norris has to take two buses to Alison Norris job at a suburban mall in Troy, Michigan, using separate city and suburban bus systems.
article_snippet: Alison Norris, 26, pictured on February 12, catches at least two buses during a two-hour, one-way commute from Detroit to her restaurant hostess job in Detroit's northern suburbs .
article_snippet: Alison Norris is among many Detroit residents without cars who often must travel long distances for low-paying positions in customer service or sales far outside Detroit.
article_snippet: But several thousand, like Alison Norris, make longer odysseys. '
highlights_snippet: Detroit resident Alison Norris, 26, has to take two separate bus systems to get to her $8.25-an-hour job in a suburb 20 miles from her home .
  
highlights_snippet: Many residents, like Norris, travel miles outside Detroit for work .
  