These struggles didn't fall equally on all residents. Race and ethnicity, education level, income, and households with children all played a factor in higher percentages.
Forty-seven percent of those who identified as Hispanic or Latino reduced or forwent basic necessities, such as food or medicine, to pay an energy bill. Thirty-seven percent of individuals surveyed who identified as Black also forwent basic necessities to pay an energy bill. More than half of those who have less than a high school education faced the same circumstances, along with almost a third of households with children under 18.
Households with a member who lost employment income in the previous month were more than three times as likely to be unable to pay their energy bills as those without income loss.said, "We went into the pandemic with customers owing in California about $500 million and we know that right now the big four utility company customers owe about $2 billion."&E customers here in the Bay Area, making up approximately $900 million of that debt, according to Sandoval.
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