All Hail! Federal Workers Using Uber Way Too Much
Government workers are turning to Uber and Lyft on business trips, with a 922-percent increase in spending last year, newly released records from the General Services Administratiaon show. At the same time, workers are using less transit.
By
Aaron Short
12:01 AM EDT on October 28, 2019
Aaron Short has been a New York City journalist for more than 20 years. He's also co-author of the seminal oral history of Donald Trump, "The Method to the Madness" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)
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