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Article: Low-Cost Car Leasing Program Helps Polk County, Fla., Residents Get to Work.
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- June 30, 2002
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By George Graham, The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 30--LAKELAND, Fla.--A 1993 silver Taurus sedan changed Jennifer Knupp's life. "Without transportation, I was not able to get around," she said last week, as she looked back on the past two years and pondered the difference a program called Citrus Cars had made. "I had to bum rides to work."
The 26-year-old single mother left high school in her senior year to have a baby. That meant going on welfare, she said, as she had no other way to support herself and her son, Skylor.
But government welfare-to-work funds gave her an opportunity to go back to school ...
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