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Thomas Young

Senior Economist

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Thomas brings a wealth of experience at the touch points of economics including economic forecasting, econometrics, investing, public economics, survey research, and cost-benefit analyses to name a few. He received his Ph.D. in Business Economics, Industrial Organization, Econometrics, and Finance from the University of Utah. Thomas currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife and four wonderful daughters.  
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Jobs & Our Economy
The Child Care Opportunity Index

Child care represents an increasingly large portion of parents’ household income in America. Despite the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ benchmark that affordable child care is not greater tha

Jobs & Our Economy
Denver Metro Area in Perspective: Jobs, Retail Sales, Population Growth

Through the latter half of the 2010s and the earlier years of the 2020s, the Denver metro (Denver MSA) was a high-growth area, defined by booming job growth, explosive population growth, and strong growth i

July 15, 2025 Thomas Young
Education
Colorado’s Higher Education Funding Formula: Options for Reform that Balance Learning with Career Success

Colorado’s current funding formula doesn’t reward better performance in any substantive way. The lack of real financial rewards provides very little incentive for higher education institutions to move the n

Workforce
What Happens When Workers’ Income Gets Cut Off? An Analysis of the Impact of HB 25-1291

The results suggest that when the estimated 34,900 workers making $745 million in net income in 2025 stop earning income in their current manner, the economy-wide impact results in 46,027 fewer workers by 2

April 25, 2025 Thomas Young