The number of Coloradans in 2011 classified as “underemployed,” or working an average of 17 hours less per week than desired. Source: Colorado Fiscal Institute, Colorado’s Genuine Progress Indicator

Percent of low-wage workers who have access to paid sick days, compared to 84 percent of top quartile wage earners, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistic.  Source: CLASP

The current number of jobs in the hotels and other traveler accommodations services industry in the United States. This industry has recovered from the jobloss that was a result of the Great Recession. Source: New York Times

Local share of Colorado school funding in 2013. In the early 1980’s the local share used to be 54 percent which provided more money for schools and allowed greater state budget flexibility. Over the past 3 decades, local share funding for K-12 has declined and TABOR has limited the state’s ability to backfill those missing local dollars with state tax money which has resulted in Colorado funding schools well-below the national average. Source: Colorado Legislative Council

Colorado Lottery proceeds that went to Great Outdoors Colorado in 2013. Source: Colorado Department of Revenue

Number of motorcycle registrations in El Paso County, the highest number in any Colorado county. Source: Department of Revenue

Number of packages of cigarettes sold in Colorado in 2013.  Source: Department of Revenue

The percent of people in the United States living in “deep poverty” in 2012 (had income below one-half the poverty threshold, or $11,746 for a family of four). Source: Department of Health and Human Services

The average drop in real incomes of the bottom 20 percent of Colorado households over the past decade. Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Economic Policy Institute

What minimum wage would be today if it kept pace with inflation since 1968. The current minimum wage provides significantly less buying power than it did in the 1960s. Source: Congressional Research Service