Report: Black households spend almost 50 percent more on utilities than white households

Grist
By Angely MercadoSep 10, 2020, 11:00 am357 pts
By the end of this month, tens of millions of households in the U.S. stand to lose protections against utility shut-offs, which were instituted early in the COVID-19 pandemic. But household utilities have long placed an outsized burden on low-income households and communities of color. New research released…

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