fiscal policy institute

(The Bell Policy Center and the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute co-released this report in Colorado for the Fiscal Policy Institute.)

By Kevin C Keller
The Denver Post

Immigrant-owned small businesses bring in an average of $684 million a year to Colorado, according to a newly released study by the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York.

The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute (COFPI) focuses in part on our State???s budget. An increasing portion of our nation???s safety net is provided at the State level. Without a thorough understanding of the public resources that are made available to serve economically disadvantaged families and children, advocates do not have all of the tools they need to be effective and the public is not in a position to evaluate the results of those policy decisions.

The Joint Budget Committee (JBC) has already begun taking steps to make Colorado’s budget process, as well as its budget-related documents, more accessible to the public.