Caring for Our Caring Workforce: Strengthening Colorado’s ECE Workforce
What's being done and what can be done to strengthen Colorado's early childhood care and education workforce?
What's being done and what can be done to strengthen Colorado's early childhood care and education workforce?
High-quality early childhood education is crucial and not possible without supporting the educators who provide this care.
There’s increasing acknowledgement we must do more to support our direct care workers. We explore several promising ways to do this.
The long-term care, direct service workforce is growing rapidly. We look at who these workers are, what they do, and why their work matters.
We have some of the building blocks in place, but Colorado is still not a 2Gen state.
Economic mobility was front and center this session, as the conversation focused on ensuring opportunity, making Colorado competitive, and helping everyone attain the Colorado way of life.
For-profit schools reflect another flaw in the higher education system, thanks to their negative impact on the student debt crisis.
CDLE data point to wages that continue to grow slowly, and show average workers aren't benefiting as much as economic numbers might suggest.
Insulin's sky-high prices mean insulin-dependent diabetics are resorting to dangerous and potentially deadly practices as a result.
As Colorado ages, we must do more to ensure we have a strong workforce capable of caring for our older loved ones. SB19-238 moves us in the right direction.
