I keep hearing that people don't have refrigerators or stoves but have never seen anything to back this up. Certainly the homeless don't, if this is what you're talking about, no argument. For those with homes, the numbers may be large, in the tens of thousands, but it seems that as a percent, it's pretty small:
Source (http://www.eia.gov/emeu/recs/appliances/appliances.html) There are some appliances that are commonplace in the home regardless of income level. These appliances are refrigerators, cooking appliances (which includes the standard oven with stove-top burners, separate stove and ovens, and toaster ovens), and color televisions. The percent of households that have them are as follows:
Refrigerator 99.9% Cooking appliance 99.7% Color television 98.9%
Is this really what you mean when you talk about people without access, the 0.1% of households without refrigerators? If so, I'm not convinced this really tells us much about the poor as a whole.
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Source (http://www.eia.gov/emeu/recs/appliances/appliances.html)
There are some appliances that are commonplace in the home regardless of income level. These appliances are refrigerators, cooking appliances (which includes the standard oven with stove-top burners, separate stove and ovens, and toaster ovens), and color televisions. The percent of households that have them are as follows:
Refrigerator 99.9%
Cooking appliance 99.7%
Color television 98.9%
Is this really what you mean when you talk about people without access, the 0.1% of households without refrigerators? If so, I'm not convinced this really tells us much about the poor as a whole.