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State Budget
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Colorado Budget: Then and Now 2024

EIGHTH ANNUAL RELEASE OF COLORADO BUDGET: THEN AND NOW

November 01, 2024 Cole Anderson
Education
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Unlocking Work: Impacts of Improving Access to Affordable Child Care

Licensed child care slots are lagging in Colorado. There are 2 licensed child care slots for every 3 children under 6 in a household where all parents are in the labor force, creating a deficit of 88,500 sl

October 31, 2024 Tamra RyanCole AndersonAlethea GomezNicole Riehl
Infrastructure
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The Road to Recovery: Downtown Denver

Denver’s downtown foot traffic is only 67% of what it was in 2019—16th lowest among the 55 U.S. cities examined.

October 30, 2024 Kelly Jean BroughDJ Summers
Jobs & Our Economy
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2023 Domestic Migration Data Migration Slowdown: Arizona Captures a Large Share of a Shrinking Pie.

Arizona continues to be a top destination for movers in the U.S. According to the most recently released state-to-state migration figures from the American Community Survey (ACS), Arizona ranked 5th in net

October 29, 2024 Zachary Milne

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