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Colorado should increase funding to local public health departments so they can continue to provide immunizations and prenatal care, monitor communicable diseases and help provide visiting nurse services.

The state should review and update its administrative procedures to promote the broadest possible dissemination of information about pending regulatory hearings and rule settings.

A Boulder Daily Camera commentary explaining the consequences of the state's poor funding of public health departments and other essential health services as a result of strict spending limits in Colorado.

The state should continue to closely monitor the financial soundness of the PERA system and take necessary action to ensure that it is able to make good on the benefits promised to public employees.

We can give our elected officials more of the tools they need to do their jobs and hold our elected officials and state agencies more accountable in several ways.

Increase funding to local public health departments so they can continue to provide immunizations and prenatal care, monitor communicable diseases and help provide visiting nurse services.

This brief draws on new data from the U.S. Department of Education to illustrate which of the state???s 46 public and private nonprofit colleges and universities best serve minority students.

This white paper is the third in a seven-part series that uses state and national data to evaluate Colorado???s performance in educating young adults, and to identify promising remedies for improvement. It also compares the graduation rates for public, private nonprofit and private for profit colleges, and the range of degrees that Colorado students earn.