LANSING (WKZO) — The rich are getting richer and the middle class are staying about the same in Michigan. That’s according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute showing wage increases for the top-one-percent of earners and the 99-percent of workers at lower income levels.
“The Increasingly Unequal States of America” report ranks Michigan 15th in the country for its top-to-bottom ratio. From 2009 to 2012, the top one-percent in Michigan saw their average real income increase by almost 50-percent, and the bottom 99-percent saw their income grow by almost two-percent.
