Sentences with phrase «put millions of households»

Yet the market was able to move in such a way as to put millions of households into fuel poverty.

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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.
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