You have to spend money to make money
I have had people work really hard to get me a job but I wouldn't have the gas money to get there and back and then there's food I have to spend a lot of time making food and a way to cook it, a place to put food, or paying a lot of money for food cause I can't drive.
We really don't have good cheap public transit in Arkansas so If you don't have a working car and/or gas money you can't get to work.
The farther away you are the less money you are really making in the end and you are more likely to have to go out to eat more spend more money on top of the gas.