So energy companies could have forgiven late payments using couch change, but cut off power instead.
...each spent about $4bn on dividends, and customer debt from their collective 4.9m shutoffs totaled about 1% of their dividend spending.
Energy and Policy Institute PDF:
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/energy-justice/pdfs/Powerless-in-the-US_Report.pdf

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