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Publications Tagged With "jobs and economic security"
Colorado Recovery Watch - March 2012
The March jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed slight improvements in the employment market. Most states ha...
Colorado Recovery Watch - February 2012
The February jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a labor market slowly moving in the right direction. Another 4,...
State of Working Colorado 2012
The State of Working Colorado explores the environment Colorado workers have faced in the wake of recession. The report examines j...
Colorado Recovery Watch - January 2012
National and state unemployment rates continued to decrease in January. Colorado was one of 45 states that recorded an unemploymen...
Colorado Recovery Watch
National and state unemployment rates decreased minimally in December. Colorado was one of 46 states that saw an unemployment rate...
Colorado Recovery Watch
National and state unemployment rates decreased minimally in November. Colorado was one of 45 states that saw an unemployment rate...
Colorado Recovery Watch
National and state unemployment rates decreased minimally in October. Colorado was one of 36 states that saw an unemployment rate ...
Colorado Recovery Watch
National and state unemployment rates were minimally changed in September. Colorado was one of 25 states that experienced unemploy...
Colorado Recovery Watch
National and state unemployment rates experienced minimal change in August. Colorado was one of 12 states that saw no change in th...
Bright Colorado initiative opponents misrepresent a study predicting the measure’s effect on employment
Some activists opposed to the Bright Colorado initiative to increase tax revenue for public education have seized on a study a con...
Labor Day highlights challenges Colorado workers still face in the wake of the Great Recession
Despite signs of a recovery taking hold in Colorado, a closer look at economic data shows workers have little to celebrate this La...
Colorado Recovery Watch
National and state unemployment rates in July changed minimally. Colorado was one of 13 states that saw no change in the unemploym...
Colorado Recovery Watch
The nation experienced little change in the labor market during June. While a majority of states had unemployment rate increases, ...
Forecasted slow economic growth does not solve the challenges facing families across the state
Colorado’s Legislative Council Staff (LCS) released its quarterly revenue projections and economic forecast on June 20. Acco...
Colorado Recovery Watch
The nation’s labor market experienced little improvement during the month of May. Recovery has stagnated, keeping states at ...
Colorado Recovery Watch
In April, a majority of the states had a slight decrease in unemployment rate from what was reported in March. That month, Colorad...
Undocumented immigrant workers in Colorado play an important role in the state's economy
The number of undocumented immigrants in Colorado has increased enormously during the past 20 years. While that number has gone do...
Colorado Recovery Watch
In March, a majority of states — including Colorado — recorded unemployment rate decreases and posted job gains. While...
Colorado's state workers create thousands of private-sector jobs as they serve the public
After the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, Colorado faces a severe revenue crisis. In the past three years, t...
Colorado Recovery Watch
In February, the U.S. unemployment rate fell below 9 percent for the first time in nearly two years. At the same time, Colorado's ...
Colorado Recovery Watch
Revised employment data show Colorado’s jobs situation was and continues to be much worse than previously thought. New figur...
State of Working Colorado 2010
The past 10 years have been ones of turmoil and contradiction for Colorado and its workers. The decade that began and ended with r...
State of Working Colorado 2010 executive summary
This is an executive summary. Read the full, 60-page report here. The past 10 years have been ones of turmoil and contradicti...
Colorado Recovery Watch
Colorado’s economy continues to show signs of slow recovery. In 2010, personal income grew with increasing strength, consume...
Colorado Recovery Watch
The national unemployment rate increased in November, again approaching double digits. In Colorado, several thousand more people h...
Colorado Recovery Watch
The national unemployment rate remained unchanged in October, not far below its recessionary peak. In Colorado, employment improve...
Colorado Recovery Watch
Fifteen months after the official end of the recession, the national and Colorado economies continue to stagnate with painfully hi...
Colorado Recovery Watch
National officials announced Sept. 20 the recession formally ended more than a year ago, in June 2009.i However, U.S. and Colorado...
Colorado Recession Watch
The United States economy stagnated in July and has since been showing signs of worsening. Troublingly, national total jobless cla...
Colorado Recession Watch
In June 2010, the jobs picture improved slightly in the United States and remained largely unchanged in Colorado. The national rat...
Colorado Recession Watch
May 2010 saw mild economic improvement, along with concerns that changes might be temporary. During the month, 44 states experienc...
Increased money for food stamps has helped Colorado families and boosted the economy
In the throes of the Great Recession, the federal Recovery Act of 2009 bolstered food stamps in Colorado with a two-year, $180 mil...
Colorado Recession Watch
In contrast to improved consumer sentiment and employment gains at the national level, economic conditions in Colorado slipped sli...
Colorado lawmakers made tough choices amid a punishing recession; more challenges are ahead
2010 FISCAL LEGISLATIVE REVIEW Colorado lawmakers confronted tough choices during the 2010 legislative session that ended Wednesda...
Colorado Recession Watch
March was a mediocre month for the Colorado economy. Unemployment continued its second bump upward, overall employment and constru...
The economic impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit in Colorado
Since its inception more than 35 years ago, the Earned Income Tax Credit has proven to be an essential piece of federal policy to ...
Colorado Recession Watch
In February the Colorado economy saw another bump in unemployment and a nominal increase in overall employment. The job gap contin...
Great Recession continues to threaten services
Three clear messages emerged from the nonpartisan Legislative Council’s projections of Colorado revenue released March 19. F...
Colorado Recession Watch
This month the federal agency responsible for reporting unemployment rates and other economic measures, the Bureau of Labor Statis...
State of Working Colorado 2009
As Colorado heads into 2010 it seems that the worst of the recession is behind us. Very recently job losses have slowed and unempl...
Colorado Recession Watch
Unemployment figures have improved recently, and the “Great Recession” is likely nearing an end in Colorado. However, ...
December 2009 Revenue Projections
On December 18th, Colorado’s Legislative Council released its quarterly analysis of Colorado’s economy along with reve...
FACT SHEET: Colorado Income
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released new income data from its American Community Survey (ACS), providing critical information ...
Poverty Rate Hits 11.4% Leading Into Recession
Colorado went into the current recession in a worse position than it entered the 2001 recession, according to new poverty data rel...
New Data Shows Income Lagging in Colorado Prior to Recession
Colorado’s median income lagged in 2008, even prior to the full onset of the recession, according to new data released today...
2009 unemployment insurance legislative review
The 2009 General Assembly adopted a number of bills that made both small and major changes to the unemployment insurance (UI) syst...
Provider Cuts Unhealthy for Colorado’s Economy
Cutting provider rates means less access to medical care for vulnerable, lower-income Coloradans. It’s a direct attack on th...
Federal Stimulus Compromise: Preliminary Impacts on Colorado
Following heated debate in the House and Senate, a compromise version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, popularly kno...
The Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act and Colorado
Both the House and Senate economic recovery packages included the Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act (UIMA) and it will be a...
Fact Sheet: 2009 Federal Stimulus Proposal (House of Representatives)
Colorado is experiencing a $631.9 Million budget shortfall as of the end of the second quarter in the current 2009 fiscal year.1 W...
STATE OF WORKING COLORADO 2008
As Colorado heads into a new year, there are troubling economic signs everywhere. Unemployment and poverty is up. Wages are stagna...
New Census Data: Colorado Hits a False Flat on Poverty
As today’s theme at the Democratic National Convention in Denver turns to economic struggles, and as the 88th anniversary of...
State of Working Colorado 2007 executive summary
The 2001 recession was brief in duration, but devastating in its consequences for working Coloradans. In the wake of that economic...
STATE OF WORKING COLORADO 2007
Colorado has a mixed story to tell about its five year recovery from the 2001 recession. After experiencing a deep recession in 20...
THE STATE OF WORKING COLORADO 2003
The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute published The State of Working Colorado 2002: Troubling Trends in January 2003. In this updat...
The State of Working Immigrants in Colorado
Typically, immigrants travel to Colorado to work in rural and resort areas. Many social and economic experts consider immigrant wo...
Colorado Unemployment Insurance Program At A Glance
In historic terms, Colorado has a low recipiency rate. Colorado paid benefits to only 24.6% of its unemployed workers over the tim...
Poverty despite work in Colorado
Across Colorado thousands of parents struggle to support their families with jobs that do not pay enough to meet their basic needs...