{"id":378101,"date":"2026-10-20T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378101\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:50:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nyc-proposal-aims-to-increase-income-threshold-for-transit-fare-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378101\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nyc Proposal Aims To Increase Income Threshold For Transit Fare Discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A new proposal looks to give discounts to more low-income transit riders across New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Some New York City officials are pushing to raise the eligibility threshold for the Fair Fares program to 200% of the federal poverty level.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, people making 150% of the poverty level get half-off their public transit fares.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates say raising eligibility would make transportation more accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new proposal looks to give discounts to more low-income transit riders across New York City. Some New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-378101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}