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Common Sense Institute releases 20-year state budget comparison.
Education funding, land use, and much more.
Denver's councilmembers on Monday defended about $42 million in proposed budget cuts.
Businesses that fuel Colorado’s economic engine can’t be blamed for cringing at the specter of the Colorado legislature’s return this month.
In Colorado, we even have a state program on top of that for families who don’t quite qualify for the federal program.
Economic Costs of Colorado’s Foster Youth—it costs Colorado $343,453 for every kid who ages out of foster care, never having been adopted or returned.
A recent study by CSI in Colorado finds that individuals who have aged out of Colorado’s foster care system, cost the state close to $350,000 a year.
CSI found for every cohort of 213 foster youths who age out of care, it costs the state up to $73 million in individual and taxpayer costs.
“They’re all of our children,” said John Farnam, lead author of the report released Tuesday by the Common Sense Institute.
If lawmakers chose to keep the measure in place even longer, it could eventually raise the limit by about $6 billion by 2040, according to CSI.
A Common Sense Institute study that said taxpayers would lose more than $5,000 in TABOR refunds over the next decade due to Prop HH.
For the past two weeks, state lawmakers along with policy leaders and concerned citizens have been focused on finalizing Colorado’s 2023-24 budget.