August 16, 2023, marked the first anniversary of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. While meaningful clean-energy progress has been made as a result, with more progress likely to follow, the legislation’s impact on the low and moderate income, or LMI, populations is still unclear.
That’s partly because implementing new laws and distributing new funding takes time, but it’s also due to the ease with which well-intentioned government spending too often benefits privileged communities at the expense of everyone else.
