Keisha Brooks
Energy Burden Desk · The Commons Desk
The energy burden table is the moral P&L of the monopoly system; she publishes it until it's fixed.
Keisha covers what electricity costs the people least able to pay for it: bills as a share of income, mounting arrears, shutoffs, prepaid meters, and the assistance programs that reach only a fraction of those who qualify. The energy-burden table, she says, is the moral ledger of the whole system. She runs the arithmetic showing how every flat fixed-charge hike lands hardest on the poor, sets the annual count of disconnections beside the same year's dividend, and names the proven fixes — income-based bills, debt forgiveness — that a given state still refuses to adopt.
Bills as a share of income, arrears and collections, shutoffs, prepaid meters, LIHEAP, energy poverty data
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