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EPISODE · Mar 17, 2025 · 58 MIN

The Growing Cost of Public Transit

from The Economist Next Door

Why does public transit keep costing the government more money? Why is cheaper goods the same thing as higher pay? And why don't most people have pensions anymore? Dominic Pino sits down with Marc Scribner to look through these questions on this episode of Econception. Marc Scribner is a Senior Transportation Policy Analyst at Reason Foundation.

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