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  1. #Trump’s budget proposes to eliminate entirely a $4.1 billion program that helps #LowIncome Americans pay their #heating & #cooling #bills. The proposal says that the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program [#LIHEAP] is “unnecessary” because Trump is planning to increase domestic #oil & #gas production & reduce #energy prices. Last month, the admin fired everyone working in the program’s office, which currently helps 6.2 million Americans nationwide offset high #UtilityBills.

    #economy

  2. The corp whores at so-called public utility, Portland General Electric (PGE), were granted an outrageous 17% rate increase by the rubber-stamp PUC of Portland, OR. That staggering increase begins to appear in citizen's electric bills January 1.

    And yet those same regulatory geniuses are always publically stumped about what the causes & cures might be for the homeless crisis.

    #CostOfLivingCrisis #UtilityRates #UtilityBills #Portland #PGE #HomelessCrisis #Inflation #Corporatocracy #Competition