Full Title: Powerless in the Pandemic 2.0
Author(s): Jean Su, Christopher Kuveke
Publisher(s): Center for Biological Diversity, BailoutWatch, Tiger Moth LLC
Publication Date: May 9, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
In September 2021, the Center for Biological Diversity and BailoutWatch published Powerless In the Pandemic: After Bailouts, Electric Utilities Chose Profits Over People. The report found electric utilities had shut off the lights of poor American families nearly a million times during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing the likelihood those customers would become sick and die.
In the eight months since, as we redoubled our data-gathering and state shutoff moratoriums expired, a fear we expressed in that earlier document has come to fruition: The problem is far larger than our earlier data set indicated. In the 33 states and the District of Columbia that made electricity disconnection data available, American families have had their electricity shut off more than 3.6 million times since the beginning of the pandemic.