{"id":43531,"date":"2025-08-14T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-energy-costs-rise-staying-cool-a-growing-challenge-for-low-income-americans\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:17:17","slug":"as-energy-costs-rise-staying-cool-a-growing-challenge-for-low-income-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-energy-costs-rise-staying-cool-a-growing-challenge-for-low-income-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"As energy costs rise, staying cool a growing challenge for low-income Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Dallas<\/em> \u2014 Angela Harmon and her grandson Leo headed out on a hot day in Dallas, Texas, to a neighborhood store that is run by their church. It&#8217;s where they keep cool because running Harmon&#8217;s air conditioner at home is more than <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/summer-energy-tips-electricity-savings-2025\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">she can afford<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s costly, it&#8217;s expensive, and I have to juggle to pay it,&#8221; Harmon told CBS News, disclosing that her daughter sometimes has to assist her in paying her electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of our community members are very, very low income,&#8221; said Chris Simmons, Harmon&#8217;s pastor at Cornerstone Baptist Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Many of them, if they have added health conditions, may not survive,&#8221; Simmons said of his congregants who cannot afford air conditioning. &#8220;They may not survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To pay her utility bills last year, Harmon relied on the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/liheap-ending-trump-proposed-budget-pennsylvania\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">federal government&#8217;s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program<\/a><\/span>, LIHEAP, a utility assistance program through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that serves more than six million Americans.<br \/><strong><br \/><\/strong>But President Trump&#8217;s budget proposal for the 2026 fiscal year would eliminate <a href=\"https:\/\/liheapch.acf.gov\/stateplans.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIHEAP<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement provided to CBS News, a spokesperson for the White House&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget called LIHEAP &#8220;a failed program that is also mired in fraud \u2013 for example thousands of &#8216;dead&#8217; people and hundreds of prisoners have received funding. Further, LIHEAP disproportionally funds states like California, whose Green New Scam policies drive up home energy prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House would leave it to the states to pay for and administer their own utility assistance, the spokesperson added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&amp;M University, studies the impact of climate change on consumers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His research has determined that climate change is increasing the cost of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>According to his research, between the summers of 2023 and 2024, climate change increased wholesale electricity costs by an average of 35% in the New England region, 30% in California, 20% in Texas and 17% in New York.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to<\/a> the latest Consumer Price Index from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, electricity costs rose 5.5% in July compared to one year ago. <\/p>\n<p>Dressler said that when temperatures are very hot and demand peaks, the cost of electricity can surge and those extra costs eventually gets passed along to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can directly draw the line from humans emitting greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, increases the temperature. 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