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Colorado’s job recovery lags behind neighboring states
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While Colorado has out-performed the majority of states, it lags behind its neighbors in recovering jobs lost during the pandemic. Four Western states – Arizona, Idaho, Texas and Utah – already recovered all the jobs they lost at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Colorado, by contrast, has regained 335,500 of the 375,800 jobs lost between…
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Polis touts jobs gains, decline in Colorado’s unemployment rate
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Colorado’s unemployment rate fell under 5% for the first time since the global COVID-19 pandemic forced countries to shut down borders and adopted drastic measures to curb its spread, including closing down gyms, restaurants and other public places. The bulk of those restrictions, including several that the Polis administration adopted at the early stage of…
