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Lived Experience Project
Believing that individual human narrative is an effective way to change misperceptions on poverty, CCLP launched a series of anecdotal vignettes entitled Lived Experience in the summer of 2020. This ongoing series features stories and testimonials from Coloradans...
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,...
Public Charge: Facts and Fiction
Deductible Affordability for Colorado’s Working-Age Families
Colorado is in the midst of developing an affordable public health insurance option, with the Division of Insurance and the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing directed to come up with a proposal by November, 2019. The process is the result of the passage...
Our Path: A CCLP 20th Anniversary Retrospect
This collection of vignettes celebrates some of CCLP's proudest accomplishments over the past 20 years, including the minimum wage campaign in 2016 and the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit). Click here to view our 20th Anniversary Book
Background Brief: HB06-1023: Verification of Lawful Presence
Advocates across Colorado are interested in improving access to health coverage and care for Colorado’s immigrant populations. One barrier to improving access is state legislation referred to as House Bill 06-1023 (HB 1023). HB 1023 requires state and local government...
A Resource for Health Care Providers and Coverage Enrollment Assisters Serving Immigrants and their Families
As a result of policy changes and anti-immigrant rhetoric coming from the Trump administration, Coloradans who immigrated to the United States and their families are experiencing heightened levels of fear and anxiety. Many fear that they or a family or community...
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"...
Medicaid Works: A Series of Factsheets
Health First Colorado, Colorado’s Medicaid program, is a public health insurance program that pays for necessary health care services for low-income Coloradans and those living with disabilities. By investing in health care services and supports, Health First Colorado...