With our focus on ensuring economic mobility for every Coloradan, we have some big questions to sift through. Who will be most impacted by our evolving economy and workforce? How do we anticipate these changes and reorganize our systems to ensure existing inequalities don’t carry over into a new economic era? Only a handful of states have begun to tackle these big questions.

Colorado will have to figure out how to provide important benefits — like health care, retirement, and disability — for people who don’t have the traditional employer-employee relationship that has long been the hallmark of American work. Beyond that, there will be many other considerations that must be thought through by stakeholders and policymakers alike. The future of work and the consequences it brings, both positive and negative, will affect the lives of many people across the state.