Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Colorado headline news: Two sides to every story (the jobs and poverty edition)


Colorado added 1500  jobs in August 2018.  Wonder how much they pay on average. "That is the fourth longest current streak in the nation, trailing only three other states: New Hampshire, Hawaii and North Dakota," Gedney said. "Colorado has quite a ways to go to challenge the all-time streak which belongs to Nebraska. The Cornhusker State went 12 years without their unemployment rate going above 3 percent. And that was basically the whole decade of the 90s."

More than a quarter of Colorado households, about 430,000, don’t earn enough income to cover basic costs like food, shelter, transportation, health care and childcare, according to a new self-sufficiency standard report Tuesday from the Colorado Center on Law and Policy. Two-thirds of those struggling families don’t meet the official poverty definition, leaving them largely hidden and beyond the reach of programs designed to offer financial support.

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