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Colorado Jobs and Labor Force Update: October 2022

In October, Colorado’s population-adjusted employment recovered to its pre-pandemic level for the first time. Colorado added 17,700 jobs in October and the unemployment rate rose to 3.6%.

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Do Final Colorado Option Rates Deliver on the Promise of Consumer Savings?

The newly released 2023 health insurance rates show that, despite the state’s promise of savings and improved competition, non–Colorado Option plans will be less expensive and fewer health insurance options will be available to most Coloradans:

Colorado Housing Affordability Update: November 2022

CSI analyzes trends in affordability and estimates whether there is a deficit or surplus in housing units across select Colorado counties.

Adapting Colorado’s Water Systems for a 21st Century Economy and Water Supply

Background information and recommendations to meet challenges facing Colorado’s water supply at the state and local level.

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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.