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"The living room of Anna Brown's wood-frame house on the city's West Side is toasty these days. The rest of the house is cold.
"Mrs. Brown, 75, keeps two electric space heaters in her living room during the day. Her natural gas was disconnected two years ago when prices soared and she fell behind in her payments. So she has erected the seasonal curtain of thick plastic that seals off the living room from the rest of the house, and has resigned to settle in for another long Chicago winter warmed by the red glow of space heaters." New York Times, 12/5/2002
Bush cuts life-saving energy assistance
President Bush is putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk this winter by cutting a program that helps low-income families pay the cost of heating their homes.
More than 4.6 million low-income families and seniors depend on the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to get them through freezing cold winters and scorching summers. Every winter, LIHEAP funds save thousands of lives, keeping people from freezing to death in their own homes.
But Bush is putting those lives at risk by cutting $300 million from LIHEAP.
More than 500,000 people won't get the LIHEAP assistance they received last year, thanks to Bush's cuts.
How do the cuts affect your state?
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Ohio loses $15,400,000 for LIHEAP
In FY2002, Ohio received $85,817,000 in LIHEAP assistance.
In FY2003, Ohio will receive just $70,417,000 for LIHEAP, losing $15,400,000 from last year.
In addition, Ohio will reduce average benefits from $170 to $140.
Source: National Energy Assistance Directors' Association
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