Okay, let’s set the scene :
You’re a single parent with a child .
You work full time for $14.00 hr

You bring home roughly
$800.00 per paycheck.

Your bills:

$1,000.00 / rent

$150.00 / electrical

$250.00 / car payment

$150.00 / car insurance

So let’s do the math :
You bring home about
$1,600.00 a month, & your bills average about $1,550.00
( give or take)

You’re making it, but barely.
This doesn't even include groceries , internet, cable, cell phone, etc
(nor does it include child tax credit, or child support)

Now, it’s a really cold December and you get a power bill for $600.00
How do you pay that?
To put it simply, you don’t.
Because you can’t.

So your power gets shut off.
But you know what your lease says ?
It says you get evicted if your utilities are terminated.