Colorado's stagnant budget isn't helping the shrinking middle class, report finds

Colorado’s stagnant budget isn’t helping the shrinking middle class, report finds
Jennifer Brown, The Colorado Sun
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Homeowner Kevin Hale works to remove a pane of glass on his home while remodeling the interior with Front Country Carpentry LLC on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, on South Grant Street in Fort Collins, Colo.
Colorado’s middle class is shrinking, and the lifestyle long associated with it — homeownership, a car, college savings and occasional vacations — is getting harder to achieve. 
That’s been the economic trend in the state, and across the country, for decades. But new research suggests Colorado’s public investments — or lack of them — could be better directed to help people climb out of poverty and into a true middle-income lifestyle.

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