CFI Issue Brief: Colorado Economic Recovery Can Reach More Coloradans by Protecting the EITC, CTC and Medicaid Expansions
September 18, 2015
The economic recovery in Colorado has been lackluster for many Coloradans, who have seen slight increases in their median household income but not enough to put them back to where they were before the Great Recession, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The newest Census data also shows that while there was a lower percentage of Colorado families living in poverty in 2014 than there were in 2013, we are merely back to 2007 levels of poverty.
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