The mortgage crisis is affecting even more people than the 1%+ of
U.S. households currently in some stage of foreclosure. People
scraping to pay their mortgages are having to let other bills slide,
and it looks like utilities are one place folks are slipping behind.
Not
that it's worse when it happens to people who aren't used to it, but
another new trend aspect of the problem is that increasingly, shut-offs
are happening to middle-class households who have never experienced
them before. This is cause for alarm, as it shows that more segments
of society are getting into desperate financial territory than have
been there in a long time.
According to the Wall Street Journal, PPL Corp. of Pennsylvania increased shutoffs by 78% in the
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