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  • Colorado jobs and unemployment: Our monthly snapshot

    Colorado jobs and unemployment: Our monthly snapshot

    The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment came out Friday with its latest monthly jobs report, covering August. Here are the key takeaways for the state’s workers: Explainer: These numbers come from two different government job surveys that don’t always agree: A survey of employers (payroll jobs only) that doesn’t include self-employed people and farm…


  • Colorado jobs and unemployment: A July snapshot

    Colorado jobs and unemployment: A July snapshot

    The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment came out Friday with its latest monthly jobs report, covering July. Here are the key takeaways for the state’s workers: Explainer: These numbers come from two different government job surveys that don’t always agree: A survey of employers (payroll jobs only) that doesn’t include self-employed people and farm…


  • Colorado jobs: A May snapshot

    Colorado jobs: A May snapshot

    The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment came out Friday with its latest monthly jobs report, covering May. Here are the key takeaways for the state’s workers: Explainer: These numbers come from two different government job surveys that don’t always agree: A survey of employers (payroll jobs only) that doesn’t include self-employed people and farm…


  • Colorado jobs: A snapshot

    Colorado jobs: A snapshot

    The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment is out with its latest monthly jobs report, covering April. Here are the key takeaways for the state’s workers: Explainer: These numbers come from two different government job surveys that don’t always agree: A survey of employers (payroll jobs only) that doesn’t include self-employed people and farm workers,…


  • Local minimum-wage bill gets maximum resistance from Republicans

    Local minimum-wage bill gets maximum resistance from Republicans

    A measure in the Colorado legislature that would have let cities and counties set minimum wages above statewide levels has died in the state Senate’s “kill committee.” The Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover reports that Democrat-backed House Bill 1368, which passed in the House 36-29 in late April, was blocked in the Republican-controlled Senate State,…


  • Hickenlooper seeks to coordinate social benefits before leaving office

    Hickenlooper seeks to coordinate social benefits before leaving office

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday he plans to spend part of his last months in office trying to coordinate his administration’s social benefit programs. Hickenlooper spoke mostly about job training and child welfare during a forum at the Aspen Institute public policy foundation in Washington. He said his first seven years…


  • Colorado’s unemployment rate drops to 2.6 percent, lowest in four decades

    Colorado’s unemployment rate dropped to 2.6 percent in March, making it the lowest in the country, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. It was also the lowest rate the state has recorded since 1976, when officials started keeping track. The rate dropped 0.3 percentage points from February’s 2.9 percent unemployment rate, reflecting…


  • Not everything is rosy with jobs in Colorado

    For Colorado residents hunting for jobs that pay enough to live on, reports of the state’s low unemployment rate and rapid population growth can be very disheartening. It seems everyone else has a job except you, often a depressing thought. However, a recent study digs deeper into the numbers and finds that job hunters’ perceptions…


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