“When you are poor, the sun finds you faster.” Those are the words of Juanita Cruz-Perez, a resident of San Antonio.
While she has an air conditioner in her home, New York Times reporter Edgar Sandoval reports that her $800 monthly budget doesn’t allow for air conditioning usage during the day. Please stop and think about what this discomfort means for her. San Antonio is brutally hot in the summer, and frequently well beyond. Sandoval reports that the city has had 46 days of 100-plus-degree weather in 2022 alone. In Cruz-Perez’s words, “The A.C. only goes on at night, no matter how hot it gets.”
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