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...
Somewhere, a place for us…
Denver’s Expanding Housing Affordability
Too many Denverites face eviction alone
Amid Colorado’s growing affordable-housing crisis, there are roughly 850 evictions filed with courts every week across the state. According to one news report, there were at least 44,000 evictions filed in Colorado in 2016. Evictions can lead to unnecessary...
The Social Determinants of Education: Reflections of a Fourth-Year Teacher, Part 2
Editor’s note: With school going back in session, this is the second in a three-part series about challenges in low-income schools by Renée Swick-Ziller, an English teacher in northeast Denver. Swick-Ziller is a native of Pueblo and a proud alumnus of the University...
The Social Determinants of Education: Reflections of a Fourth-Year Teacher
Editor’s note: With school going back in session, this is the first in a three-part series about challenges in low-income schools by Renée Swick-Ziller, a Denver English teacher. Swick-Ziller is a native of Pueblo and a proud alumna of the University of Northern...
Mile High Connects Awarded $1 Million From National SPARCC Initiative
DENVER, February 15, 2017 Mile High Connects today announced that Denver was selected to join the Strong, Prosperous, And Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC). SPARCC is a three-year, $90 million initiative that will bolster local groups and leaders in their...
Moving Forward
On November 9th, I awoke and did not want to get out of bed. To be honest, with several weeks passing, I am only now beginning to be able to process the news without a feeling of deep depression. I am trying to sort out my own perspective. There are so many responses....