Coping strategies when power bills get too high
A survey of more than 5,000 Americans living within 200% of the federal poverty line in 2020-21 found many took on debt or faced dangerous temperatures to afford their power bills.
A bar chart shows the percentage of people using different strategies to avoid having their power turned off, the most common being accruing debt (27%), facing risky temperatures (26%) and forgoing other expenses, such as cutting back on food.
