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Luxury Residential Property: The Missing Tool From Colorado’s Toolbox

Colorado needs new, progressive tools to provide targeted tax relief without cutting funding to community services.

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Colorado 2022-23 Budget Breakdown

We demystify Colorado's 2022-23 budget proposal to cut through the noise and provide the information you need.

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A Clearer Picture: Colorado’s Property Tax Debate

Four approaches to housing affordability and property taxes are headed to your ballot. How do they work and which approach is best for Colorado?

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What are Colorado Initiatives 74 and 75?

Two property tax initiatives may appear on your ballot this year. Learn how they might hurt Colorado and how we can have more productive property tax conversations moving forward.

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Price-Cap Regulations on Property Taxes & Consequences

We look at property tax measures from various states, how they work, and the fiscal consequences they provoked.

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How Inflation Affects Colorado’s Living Wage

We demystify the reports of rampant inflation by examining where these numbers come from, what's driving them, and how lawmakers should respond.

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TABOR Rebates: Finding Fairness in an Unfair System

How tax revenue that comes in over the revenue cap gets sent to taxpayers and why the current system isn’t working for most Coloradans.

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Quality Child Care in Colorado: A Cost Study

This three-part series analyzes the costs of child care in Colorado in order to understand what it takes to have a quality system that works for everyone.

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Beneath the Surface: How Orphan Oil Wells Could Overwhelm Colorado’s Budget

A fiscal problem lurks “beneath the surface” in Colorado. Without real reform, Colorado could be on the hook for over $8 billion worth of work to plug current oil and gas wells.

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10 Policy Recommendations for a New Year

As 2021 ends, we're renewing our call for the evidence based policies which will create a stronger, thriving state.

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