Study reports
Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2022
Overlooked and Undercounted 2022
Barriers, Errors & Due Process Denied: A Review of Colorado’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Administrative Hearing Process
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Budget Cuts and Health Access
This 10-page analysis shows how proposed cuts to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing's budget will likely have adverse effects on Coloradans’ ability to access health care -- particularly in rural parts of the state. The report was published on June 5,...
Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2018
Prepared every few years for Colorado Center on Law and Policy by the Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of Washington, the Self-Sufficiency Standard calculates how much income a family must earn to meet basic needs without public or private assistance based...
Facing Eviction Alone: A Study of Evictions in Denver, 2014-2016
Amid Colorado’s growing affordable-housing crisis, there are roughly 850 evictions filed with courts every week across the state. According to data compiled by the Colorado Judicial Branch and Denver County Court, there were at least 44,000 evictions filed...
Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Colorado
This eye-opening report from 2007 illustrates how many families were caught in a "policy gap" where they earned too much to qualify for governmental work support programs, but too little to support their families. [button newwindow="yes"...
Health care affordability and Colorado’s low wage workers: a look at Medicaid recipients in Colorado
With the Trump Administration now allowing states to implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients, take a look at this comprehensive breakdown of the work and employment realities for Medicaid recipients in Colorado. [button newwindow="yes"...