Not unlike President Donald Trump’s deceptive crowing over having solved America’s economic issues and holding up a steaming stock market as proof, celebrations about Colorado’s good times are vastly naive.

No doubt that recreational marijuana and an enviable jobs market in the state’s big urban areas have helped pull Colorado out of the recession, but much of the state is still hurting, and no one is suffering more than Colorado children. As the Colorado Legislature convenes its 120-day mission to try to either fix things or at least do no harm, the plight of those without jobs in rural areas or realistic access to healthcare need to be lawmaker priorities, after taking care of problems plaguing Colorado kids.

Last year’s Kids Count survey by the Colorado Children’s Campaign, and the consistent dismal school performance in poorer areas, like parts of Aurora and Pueblo, point out the problems.

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