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...
Roughly 240,000 unemployed Coloradans face a significant reduction in income when the Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (or PUC) elapses in late July. The federally funded benefit -- which provides a $600 weekly benefit to supplement unemployment insurance -- helped...
This policy paper, prepared by staff members Charles Brennan, Michelle Webster & Claire Sheridan, delves into the deep issues of economic inequality that permeates our state, but also proposes a solution: expanding Colorado's existing Earned Income Tax Credit...
At a cursory glance, Colorado has much to celebrate in terms of low unemployment and poverty levels, but scratching the surface of the data reveals troubling trends fraught with wage stagnation and disparities. CCLP produces the State of Working Colorado every year to...
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...