National Data & Predictions

Poverty

• Poverty Trends for Workers and their Families: EOS interprets the 2005 Census Report
• Links to Information on the Well-Being of Low-Income Consumers, Low-Wage Workers, and Retirees

Energy Bills and Energy Burdens: National Estimates, Current Year & Beyond

• The Most Current Forecast of Low-Income Consumers’ Energy Needs - The 2008 energy bills of low-income customers; excerpts of report by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• November 2006: Forecast: Low-income Consumer Annual Bills and Heating Bills in 2006-07
• Full Funding for LIHEAP: What Is It?
• Making Ends Meet - Census data on consumers who could not afford their 2001 energy bills. It chronicles the multiple hardships many endured at the time their energy bills were out of reach.
• Link: The Energy Affordability Index by Roger Colton, comes with state data on multiple income groups and their energy and non-energy expenditures and state-level reports.
• Link: Out of Reach - Housing burden and cost data for most areas updated by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. Links to the 2007 Report.
• By Fuels: Natural Gas, Oil, Electricity, Gasoline
  • 2004 Gasoline Prices - Real Income Losses
  • Fact Sheet: Electricity and the Elderly, 1997
• By Groups of Consumers
  • No Energy for Some
  • Utility Shutoffs in 1997 and Beyond…
  • Fact Sheet: Electricity and the Elderly, 1997
  • Energy Burdens = The Young and the Old - 1997
  • Elder Independent Living: Threats from High Energy Prices and Weak Consumer Protections