“Difficulty Paying Bills Tops Pandemic High in US Census Survey”
July 29, 2022
“…The survey shows a sharp increase in financial stress in all of the country’s large metropolitan areas. In Dallas, for example, the share of respondents having difficulty paying bills jumped to about to 45.9% from 27.9% a year earlier. The share in Detroit rose by almost 20 percentage points…
Nationally, the latest Census survey shows that more than one third of households reduced or forwent expenses for basic household necessities, such as medicine or food, in order to pay an energy bill. More than one in five families kept their home at a temperature that felt unsafe or unhealthy for at least one month, and a similar share hasn’t been able to pay at least part of an energy bill.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/difficulty-paying-bills-tops-pandemic-191151129.html