Over time, Colorado has consistently been rated as a state where child care was least affordable for families. On average, in 2016 it cost $11,000 per year for a 4-year-old and nearly $15,000 for an infant in full-time, center-based child care.
“Some people don’t want to give you an opportunity. You have to build your own bridges.”
The bottom line is this: Coloradans need postsecondary training and credentials to enter or stay in the middle class.
This year on Groundhog Day, I’m contemplating a health policy idea that ought to go back into hiding: high-risk pools.
In an effort to inform effort to expand opportunity in Colorado, we have compiled a report focusing on some of the important levers to economic mobility.
A first-generation American, who lived as a child in Denver’s Westwood public housing projects, Randy Ho could have taken two very different roads.
Ideas that Work allows us to tell the stories of Coloradans who come together to tackle problems that can’t be solved by individuals alone.
America faces a retirement crisis, as a substantial number of working families are not saving enough to meet their needs in retirement.
Our research report discusses an important emerging strategy that helps low- to moderate-income families move out of poverty, known as a two-generation approach.
