Yet the market was able to move in such a way as to
put millions of households into fuel poverty.
Not exact matches
There are currently more than 6.6
million households across the UK who can not afford to heat their homes,
putting them at risk
of serious health problems such as heart disease, strokes, respiratory illnesses - such as asthma and bronchitis - and exacerbating common ailments like colds and flu as well as increasing the likelihood
of falls and other accidents.
The most recent official Government statistics, announced by the Department
of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in June 2011,
put the total number
of households living in fuel poverty in the UK at 5.5
million in 2009 a rise
of around 1
million when compared to 2008 and representing approximately 21 %
of all UK
households.
The most recent official Government statistics, based on 2010 data,
put the total number
of households living fuel poverty in England at 3.5
million.
The numbers speak for themselves in terms
of the crisis
of hunger among kids in the United States: More than 16
million children — one in five — live in
households that struggle to
put food on the table.
In 2014, businesses like Home Depot (56
million shoppers affected), Target (70
million) and Chase (76
million households, 7
million small businesses) admitted to security breaches that
put credit card and personal information in the hands
of hackers.
Not only that, every economic analysis
of CF&D has concluded that, because it
puts money directly into the hands
of millions of households, the overall economy and employment would grow as a result.
Net exports in November 2016 were equivalent to the power that approximately 150,000 «average» ** Ontario
households would use in a year, or to
put it another way, was sufficient to supply 2.4
million of those same
households for the whole month
of November.
At the hearing, titled «Individual Tax Reform,» Harrison told senators that
putting homeownership in the crosshairs
of tax reform would strike at
millions of American
households.
Millions of Millennials finally started looking for rental units in recent years, after
putting off starting their own
households during the Great Recession and the slow economic recovery.
From 2006 to 2011, the housing crash
put downward pressure on house values throughout the country, affecting
millions of households.