Continuing a trend that started 35 years ago, an Economic Policy Institute report documents that the benefits of the rebounding economy are flowing primarily to the wealthiest Americans.
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Colorado’s economy has grown at a steady 6 percent clip in recent years. And income growth is up. That is, if you are among the state’s wealthiest 1 percent.

Colorado’s wealthiest have seen their income increase on average by 48 percent from 2009 to 2012, while incomes for the bottom 99 percent declined by 1 percent, according to a report released last week by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on economic policies affecting working Americans.

Colorado was not alone. In 15 other states, all economic growth over the three years analyzed in the report was accrued by the wealthiest 1 percent of the population. […]