Deep Cuts Challenge Families In Frigid North

by Jay Field, Maine Public Broadcasting Network

The high price of home heating oil and the arrival of frigid temperatures has people across New England struggling to pay their energy bills. It's an annual challenge in the region for poor people, and increasingly, for more middle-class families. And this winter, the struggle is even more difficult because of deep cuts to the federal home heating assistance program many depend on to get by.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, December 28, 2011