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Potential Reach of Proposition 119 “The Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program (LEAP)”

Proposition 119 on the 2021 Colorado ballot proposes to establish the Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program (LEAP) funded by a 5% tax on recreational marijuana.

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Are Denver Taxes Too High? The Fiscal Impacts of Ordinance 304 “Enough Taxes Already”

Ordinance 304 or the “Enough Taxes Already” ballot initiative proposes to cut the City of Denver’s sales tax from 4.81% to 4.5% and impose a cap at the latter rate.

Proposition 120: What Voters See, May Not Be What Voters Get

Proposition 120 – “Property Tax Assessment Rate Reduction” proposes to permanently reduce the statewide property tax assessment rate for several classes of property.

If Colorado is to have a substantive public discourse about how to improve educational outcomes, there needs to be a common understanding of how K-12 public education is funded in the state. This study analyzes statewide and regional trends in K-12 revenues and spending over the past decade to help ground conversations in facts.

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Colorado Jobs and Labor Force Update: August 2021

Sep 17, 2021 | 2021 Research, Featured, Featured Research, Jobs & Our Economy, Recent Research, Research

In April 2020, Colorado lost over 360,000 jobs, experienced the worst month of economic performance in its history, and launched into a deep and abiding recession. A little over a year later, the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that, though Colorado’s workforce has already endured the worst of the recession and is ahead of pace to recover fully by 2023, much progress remains to be made.

2021 Ballot Guide

Sep 14, 2021 | Ballot Issues, Featured, Featured Research, Recent Research, Research

Facts and objective analysis of the economic impacts of 3 different questions Colorado voters face and 3 unique questions City & County of Denver voters face on their November 2021 election ballot.

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CSI’S MISSION

CSI’s mission is to examine the fiscal impacts of policies, initiatives, and proposed laws so that Coloradans are educated and informed on issues impacting their lives. Common Sense Institute was founded in 2010 originally as Common Sense Policy Roundtable. CSI’s founders were a concerned group of business and community leaders who observed that divisive partisanship was overwhelming policymaking and believed that sound economic analysis could help Coloradans make fact-based and common sense decisions.

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