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It’s getting harder to be a single mom in Colorado 62...

Kayla Frawley said she felt “lucky” when she was hit by a car and broke her leg. When you’re a single mom, the 31-year-old Frawley...

The middle class is shrinking in Colorado

Coloradans are under too much financial pressure to achieve a middle-class lifestyle, even with what are considered middle-class earnings, according to a study released...

A giant leap: How one Colorado community plans to double its...

It sounds a little like a car race, but it’s more like a care race. Child Care 8,000 is one Colorado county’s ambitious new effort...

President Obama talks middle class economics, partisanship in Denver

President Barack Obama gave a speech on middle class economics today from a shady grove in Denver’s Cheesman Park. The event, limited to roughly 100 invited members of the public, comes at the end of Obama’s whirlwind tour of Colorado’s capital city ...

To care and be cared for

Despite not snagging as many headlines as last session’s civil unions and gun control measures, voices from all corners of the state have called the 2014 session a historically good one for women.

Lawmakers inquire about healthcare costs and segregated classrooms

Lawmakers ask voters to shore up state Constitution The House passed a resolution today that will ask voters this November if they think the number...

Child care tax credit moves forward despite $20 million price tag

A bill to help Colorado's poorest working families pay for child care took its first step towards the Govenor's desk yesterday when it passed out of the House Finance Committee. HB 1072 would close what its sponsors call a loophole in current tax credits for child care which currently leaves out the vast majority families making less than $25,000 a year.
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