In 2015, health costs represented nearly 10 percent of Coloradans median incomes and grew at a faster pace than wages. This trend is projected to continue: By the end of the decade, health care costs will grow by 7 percent per year in Colorado.
Public investment in paid leave would yield big dividends for employees and employers. Colorado should continue to forge a path toward the future of work.
America’s education and skills-development system must change in order to meet the needs of our future economy and workforce, but can it?
Barring some change at the ballot box, we won’t help more parents afford child care or better schools or more accessible college and postsecondary programs. We’ll continue to scratch our heads at why we don’t have nicer services and infrastructure. Our state will continue to spend too little to help working families succeed.
They have not always functioned smoothly, but there are signs they are currently stable. They have also been instrumental in helping many people get affordable health insurance.
The fees that would be charged on the Secure Savings Plan are much lower than what small employers with low-wage workers currently pay in the market place. These are the very employers least likely to offer workplace retirement savings plans in Colorado.
A growing number of retirement-age Americans are defaulting on student loans and many are falling into poverty as a result.
Trump’s proposed budget takes direct aim at many of the investments that help moderate- to low-income Coloradans get ahead and stay ahead economically.
While we welcome highly educated entrepreneurs to our state, we are failing our own children and middle class workers who struggle every day to get by.
Poor outcomes at for-profit schools are hitting low-income students and ethnic and racial minorities the hardest.
