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Unpaid bills often put Elizabeth Brown in the position of choosing between which of her family’s needs should get priority, a struggle familiar to many Milwaukeeans.
Brown, 43, is in many ways the face of poverty in Milwaukee.
She is stuck in a cycle that has her consistently choosing between feeding her family or paying for items like rent or utilities.
As a result, digging out is a pervasive feature of her life and those of many others in Milwaukee, which holds the second-highest poverty rate among the nation’s 50 most populous cities.
In early April, Brown applied for energy…
