minimum wage
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University of Colorado study backs concerns from businesses over raising the minimum wage
A recent University of Colorado study backs up many of the arguments made by businesses who opposed raising the minimum wage in Colorado. The study, published in the journal Regional Science and Urban Economics in May, comes after Colorado voters last November backed gradually raising the minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020. The first…
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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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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
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YESTERYEAR: Buckley scrutinized, newly elected Perlmutter nabs key committee seat
Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Republican Secretary of State Victoria Buckley found herself under a bit of a microscope with the legislative branch. Buckley was forced to defend her campaign’s actions, coming under fire by the Colorado General Assembly’s Audit Committee. The state auditor had released a report finding that Buckley had…
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Striking workers to demonstrate at Denver airport
Workers at a Denver McDonald’s plan to strike and then demonstrate at the city’s airport on Tuesday as part of a nationwide day of protests by fast-food employees to push for higher wages and union rights. While a strike is planned at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the Service Employees International Union says workers won’t try…
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Webb: Looking back on Election 2016
As we begin to digest the 2016 election results, let me begin with our successes. First, I want to congratulate Denver voters on our 80 percent turnout, which is outstanding. I also want to congratulate Emmy Ruiz for running a great campaign in Colorado for Hillary Clinton. She helped make Colorado blue and bring Hillary…
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? Zoe: A conservative case to raise the minimum wage
I have been a fiscally conservative Republican since I was a young man because President Ronald Reagan’s unshakable optimism in the goodness of America and his message of personal responsibility and the dignity of work resonated strongly with me. And that’s why as a business owner, I’ll be voting for Amendment 70 to gradually raise…
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? Gagliardi: Into the great minimum wage mess we charge
By now, most Coloradans who intend to vote are well aware of what Amendment 70 would do: Raise the state’s minimum wage rate. This doesn’t mean they necessarily understand what the minimum wage rate is and what increases do. Old definitions and arguments don’t seem to hold much sway with voters, so let us propose…