Power outages persist in the Montreal area 48 hours after severe thunderstorms ripped through southern Quebec, downing trees, snapping poles and breaking wires. Hydro-Québec reports more than 8,100 customers are still without power as of Saturday afternoon, down from more than 20,000 earlier in the day and a Thursday evening peak of more than 300,000. […]
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More Than 8,000 Quebec Households Still Without Power Following Severe Storm
Households across Europe struggle to pay bills as cost of living crisis bites
Households across Europe are struggling to pay bills as the cost of living crisis bites and leads to street protests in many countries Source Views: 0
Postal Service accused of sharing private info of 68M households obtained from COVID-19 tests
(Natural News) The United States Postal Service (USPS) is being accused of sharing the private information of up to 68 million households with labor unions. The USPS delivered more than 270 million free Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) tests to over 68 million American households back in March 2022. For these COVID-19 tests to reach American homes, families had to […]
Hungary set to scrap energy price caps for some households
Much like the rest of Europe, rising energy bills are becoming a massive problem in Hungary. People here are on average poorer than those in Western Europe. Winters are also bitingly cold, with temperatures often heading below freezing. It’s left some people with difficult choices to make, such as that between eating and being warm. […]
Europe’s energy crisis: European nations scramble to help households with soaring bills
Europe is facing a sharp rise in power bills driven by skyrocketing gas prices. Source Views: 0
As Households Struggle With Rising Prices Energy Giants Shell & Centrica Enjoy Soaring Profits
Soaring profits at two of the UK’s biggest energy companies have been described as an “insult” to millions of people struggling amid the cost of living crisis as the high oil and gas prices are […] The post As Households Struggle With Rising Prices Energy Giants Shell & Centrica Enjoy Soaring Profits appeared first on […]
Biden’s ‘Inflation Tax’ Is Costing US Households $433 Per Month
If the federal government is going to spend more to fight inflation, it will either have to raise taxes (and not just on the “rich” — that won’t generate enough government revenue) or it will have to borrow more. That means the Federal Reserve will have to print more to monetize the debt. That means […]
U.S. Married Couple Households With Children Fall to Record Low
The number of U.S. homes with a married couple and kids fell to a record low, according to new government data, as the pandemic further delayed weddings and more adults don’t plan to have kids at all. The share of the U.S.’s 130 million households headed by married parents with children under age 18 fell to 17.8% in […]
Inflation Causing Hardship For 45% Of U.S. Households; Lower-Income Americans Most Affected: Gallup
By Mohamed Younis of Gallup, As the peak of holiday shopping approaches and winter temperatures drive up heating costs across the U.S., 45% of American households report that recent price increases are causing their family some degree of financial hardship. Ten percent describe it as severe hardship affecting their standard of living, while another 35% say […]
Households Brace for Higher Winter Heating Costs as Natural Gas Prices Vault
The relentless rise in natural gas prices continued on Wednesday, highlighting the looming threat to American households bracing for higher heating costs in the event of a harsh winter. U.S. natural gas futures were up 1.11 percent at $6.382 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) in early trading on Oct. 6 after jumping around 9 percent […]
25 years ago 74% of all NZ households lived in their own home … so who owns NZ now? (Bryan Bruce)
Reposting this excellent doco … a timely reminder, where we’ve been, where we’re headed right now Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch To watch Bryan Bruce’s revealing documentary at Youtube, click on this link. This is a real eye opener, especially if you were born after the nineties. I remember how it was as do all the […]
BREAKING: CDC creating secret national database of households with unvaccinated children… hear the recording… plan to medically KIDNAP all unvaxxed kids?
By Mike Adams The corrupt CDC, which has outlined a plan to set up covid internment camps in every US city, is secretly building a database of US households that have unvaccinated children present. Disguised as a national immunization “survey,” the CDC is collaborating with NORC at the University of Chicago to place phone calls to households across America, […]
Mortgage Stress Falls to Near Record Lows for Australian Households: Roy Morgan
The number of households under ‘mortgage stress’ sharply fell to near record lows in mid-2021 despite the loss of JobKeeper, according to research by market search company Roy Morgan. The latest data, based on in-depth interviews over a rolling three-month period to May, revealed that the number of ‘at risk’ mortgage holders has fallen to […]
Soaring Prices Push US Households To The Edge
Above photo: In this April 29, 2020 file photo, a worker restocks chicken in the meat product section at a grocery store in Dallas. AP Photo/LM Otero. Surging prices for necessities like used cars, phones, and housing have caused the biggest jump in “core” consumer prices in nearly four decades, according to new figures released […]
‘The Most Basic Form Of PPE’: 1.6 Million Households Face Water Shutoffs
Above photo: Deborah Bell-Holt stands outside of her home in Jefferson Park near Downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 21, 2021. Having fallen deeper into utilities debt as she took in family and friends during the pandemic, Bell-Holt fears her water will be shut off. Shae Hammond for CalMatters. In April, the governor issued an executive […]
New Jersey Is Becoming The Most Hated State As Households Flee In Record Numbers
A new tax on millionaires, a 22.5% gas tax hike (bringing the total increase to 250% in 4 years), and now a tax on high frequency trades: it is becoming obvious to most – except perhaps the state’s democratic leadership – that New Jersey is now actively trying to drive out its tax-paying population and […]
11 Million Households Could be Evicted Over the Next Four Months
11 Million Households Could be Evicted Over the Next Four Months July 28th, 2020 Via: Fast Company: Every year, about 2.3 million American renter households receive eviction papers at some point. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we might see that many evictions in one month. Global advisory firm Stout, with input from the National Coalition for […]