Show One Out of Each Four in Utah Gets Income from Government Nearly Neatly one fourth of all aU personal personal per per- Bonal Income received by Is derived from government government govern govern- ment sources This Tills fact was reported this week by Utah Foundation the private governmental research organization In an analysis of person I income payments h I I Utah I According to the Foundation study government payments to Individuals In Utah In the form fonn of wages salaries and benefits bent bene fits totaled million last I year This was equal to ap ape approximately 1 proximately of per cent of I all personal income payments payments' I Ito to Individuals In the State dur ing 1959 Throughout tal United States about i per cent of all of personal Income I was derived from governmental tat tal sources The report shows that total tota personal Income payments to Individuals in Utah reached an time all high of 16 billion In 1959 despite strikes in th the copper and steel industries ll Personal Income payments ments amounted amounted amounted am am- to million In 1950 1930 and million In 1929 I A large part of the Increase In Utah's personal income over i ithe the years has been the result of I expanded governmental activity the study continues Personal Persona Income from government sources source es has multiplied t 18 times dur dur- ing the past 30 years 21 million In 1929 and million mil mile lion In 1959 In 1929 about 74 14 per sent of the States State's person nl ni Income was obtained from governmental sources compared compare ed with today Taxes Takes as u percentage of personal Income have increased from 12 to 30 per cent during this same period per period iod lod of time Ume the report observes Foundation analysts note that Utah ranks among the 50 states stales In per capita personal Income Last tast year Utah personal personal personal per per- income amounted to 18 thousand per capita approximately per cent below th the i US U.S. average of ot 21 thousand Utah's per capita Income also was 7 per cent below the average average aver age of the eight Mountain States and nearly 28 per cent below the Pacific Coast States Staten average Twelve velve of ot the eighteen states ranking below Utah in per capt ta to Income were States Among the Western States only Idaho and New Mexico had a lower per capita Income |