![Marzs Mata waits for the third and final bus of her three-hour commute home from her job in the suburbs to downtown Detroit.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3bd4180/2147483647/strip/true/crop/140x152+0+0/resize/880x955!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fnews%2Fspecials%2Flow_wage%2Fimages%2F030623.detroit-c53d1c51f66d8a7f5b3f281dc677892426a5aa58.jpg)
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NPR's Noah Adams reports from Detroit, Mich., the last stop on a driving trip north on I-75 that began two weeks earlier in Knoxville, Tenn.
Adams talks with Marzs Mata, who works for ComCast customer service in a Detroit suburb, commuting by bus from the southwest part of downtown.
Adams goes along for her bus ride home -- a three-bus, almost three-hour ordeal. Mata doesn't have a car, can't afford to live near her job, and spends about five hours a day getting to and from work.
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