The latest SSS report calculates the costs of Coloradans' basic needs with much greater accuracy than the federal poverty measure
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Economy
CCLP Opposes Proposition 121: State Income Tax Rate Reduction Grows Inequities
CCLP STRONGLY OPPOSES Proposition 121, which would permanently reduce the state income tax rate for individuals and corporations from 4.55% to 4.40%. This decrease would reduce state revenues by almost $400 million per year. If state revenues fall too far below the...
Income & Self-Sufficiency Policy Forum Recap, Part 2: Policy ideation, room for improvement and the challenges ahead
How Can We Make Income More Sustainable and Equitable? While there are substantial barriers, Ms. Robert provided our audience with some positives about Colorado. Currently, Colorado ranks 2nd to Nebraska in having a high labor force participation at 69.4%, so it’s...
Income & Self-Sufficiency Policy Forum Recap, Part 1: The Self-Sufficiency Standard and barriers to self-sufficiency
At the beginning of September, CCLP hosted its second Policy Forum series event on Income and the Self-Sufficiency Standard in Colorado. We are grateful to those who were able to join us in conversation. Attendees raised important questions about the income trends as...
Making cents of the headlines, part 2: What causes inflation?
Pundits warn that government spending makes inflation trends worse. But they forget the basics of how inflation works.
#RecoverCO Resources
The COVID-19 public health crisis has created the largest budgetary shortfall in Colorado history, forcing state legislators to make some devastating decisions – including potentially cutting $3.3 billion in state funding for education, health care and other critical...
How and why Colorado must do better
Behind the headlines about Colorado’s prosperous economy lurks the vexing fact that little has changed for most Colorado workers -- particularly workers of color -- over the past seven years. According to Colorado Center on Law and Policy’s newly released 2017 State...