Over 1.2 million Coloradans rely on Medicaid or Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) for comprehensive health services that foster child development, help adults maintain employment, deliver needed mental health and substance use treatments and keep people with disabilities...
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...
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"...
Subprime Lender Thrives While Colorado Consumers Struggle OneMain is the largest subprime installment lender in the nation operating 1,800 branches in 44 states and by far the biggest fish in Colorado’s subprime lending sector. OneMain offers loans to borrowers with...
The Assets & Opportunity Scorecard is a comprehensive look at Americans’ financial security. This profile shows how Colorado measures up in five issue areas: Financial Assets & Income, Businesses & Jobs, Housing & Homeownership, Health Care and...
To spark discussion about policies that will help people with criminal records in Colorado gain access to the job market, this CCLP brief analyzes the barriers that prevent people with criminal records from obtaining employment and the impact of those barriers on...
The Colorado Center on Law and Policy is publishing The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2015 in an effort to ensure the best data and analyses are available to enable Colorado’s families and individuals to make progress toward real economic security. The result...