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The Uncertain Future Cost of Colorado’s Energy Infrastructure and Housing Affordability

The Rising Cost of Living: Inflation, Housing, Health Care, Affordability, and Crime

Inflation, housing affordability, health care costs, crime, & new regulations, fees and taxes the last several years could jeopardize Colorado’s economic vitality and individual opportunity.

Colorado Jobs and Labor Force Update: May 2022

Colorado’s robust economy has added 405,400 jobs since April 2020, eclipsing the 374,500 jobs the state lost in March and April 2020. This represents a recovery rate of 109.6 percent which is 13.3 percentage points higher than the nationwide recovery rate of 96.3%.

Inflation in Colorado: May 2022 Update

Inflation in the Denver metropolitan area continues to run hot, particularly for housing. Overall price levels increased 3.4% between January and May and 8.3% over the last 12 months.

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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.