DJ Summers dives into the costlier state of Colorado | The OpEdge Podcast
Common Sense Institute’s Director of Communications & Research Operations DJ Summers dives deep with The OpEdge Podcast host and investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger regarding Colorado’s drop in the institute’s Free Enterprise Competitive Index.
Summers shares shrewd insights regarding Colorado’s curious, one-of-a-kind case study of economics, demographics and culture of the past 15 years, when a one-of-a-kind confluence attracted coming-of-age millennials to the Centennial State.
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But as that transient, renting generation increasingly opts to depart Colorado rather than put down roots, what is the rationale behind this outflow, what regulations are the reasons for this air of uncertainty, and what does it all say about our business environment?
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