“If we can get the economy right, everything else takes care of itself… It’s the rising tide that lifts all boats,” said Gov. Gary Herbert to his Park City real estate colleagues in 2011. But it doesn’t, as evidenced by this: “… the percentage of taxpayers who are downwardly mobile increased to 39 percent from 28 percent,” (Utah Foundation, “Climbing Toward the American Dream: A Second Analysis of Economic Mobility in Utah,” Aug. 2, 2013).
Utah’s claim to be one of the friendliest states for business may be right, but it isn’t for the poor. There are 123,000 working poor that can’t afford health care and some of them working two or three jobs to make it in the governor’s economy.
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