Energy burden — the proportion of household income spent on electricity and fuel — is an issue of rising urgency. Increasingly frequent and extreme weather events create life-threatening situations for those that cannot afford power, and the number of households struggling to make energy bill payments is staggering. In 2020, nearly 34 million US households reported reducing or forgoing food or medicine or leaving the home at unsafe temperatures in order to pay their energy bills.
However, new funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and targeted state-level policies present opportunities to reduce energy inequity.
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1 in 7 Families Live in Energy Poverty. States Can Ease That Burden.
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