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SPONSORED: CSPR study underscores the need for PERA reform
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Rarely does any issue in the Colorado Legislature garner unanimous agreement. This year, the stakes are too high to ignore and on the issue of Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) reform. Every lawmaker, policy expert, the Governor, and interest group agree, PERA, the Public Employee Retirement Association, must be reformed. Since the mid-2000s, the amount of…
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SPONSORED: CSPR launches new website
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The Common Sense Policy Roundtable (CSPR), a Colorado based free-enterprise think tank, has kicked off the new year with a new website. “Our mission is to research and promote common sense solutions for economic issues facing Colorado,” said CSPR Policy & Research Director Chris Brown. “We want to be a fact-based resource for thoughtful debate.…
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Conservative group sounds alarm over health care’s rapidly rising share of Colorado state budget
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Colorado’s state budget has jumped by more than 19 percent over the last decade, measured in constant dollars, a free-market think tank says in a report delivered at the Capitol this week as lawmakers weigh next year’s budget. And nearly all of that increased spending has gone to health care, the study by the Common…
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Wright: Solving the affordable housing crisis
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Colorado is facing an affordable housing crisis as both the demand and the cost of entry-level homes continues to skyrocket, while housing construction, particularly in the areas of condominiums, remains largely nonexistent. Some have argued the absence of affordable housing construction, which condominiums and starter single-family homes provide, is simply due to a lack of…
