Report: Competitive Energy "Scams" Hit Poor African Americans, Latinos The Hardest, Complaints Show
November 20,2018
The Chicago (IL) Reporter published an analysis which it said, "finds that a disproportionately high concentration of consumer complaints against alternative suppliers occurs in the city’s low-income Black and Latino ZIP codes."
"Majority Black ZIP codes have twice as many complaints per household as Latino ZIP codes and three times the rate of white ZIP codes. And high-poverty areas have twice the complaint rate of the rest of the city," the Chicago Reporter said