A looming problem and a proposal.
California is staging a COVID-comeback. Vaccination rates are on the rise. Public schools are slowly opening up. My favorite little league baseball team is back on the field.
Go Pirates!
I can see light at the end of my pandemic tunnel. But I’m going to make it through this with my family, my job, and my health intact (sanity not so much). Others are not as fortunate.
Unpaid energy bills are one measure of the economic pressure that some households are under. Since the pandemic took hold, these bills have been piling up. The graph below tracks arrears – wonkspeak for unpaid electricity and gas bills – households owe to California’s largest utility PG&E.