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REDI report volume 2018, August
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2018.
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Rental prices in Colorado are unusually high in terms of their share of renters' income. Accelerating rents in metropolitan areas of Colorado area driving force behind the widening rental price gap between the US and Colorado. Colorado potentially faces a constrained entrepreneurial environment due to these rising rent burdens.
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2021.
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This memorandum provides an update on leading economic indicators to inform the General Assembly about the ongoing state of the Colorado and U.S. economies. Select indicators for business activity, employment, consumer activity, and energy activity are provided. Data for June and early July suggest an ongoing recovery from the COVID-19-related recession. However, economic activity remains well below pre-pandemic levels, and the impacts of the pandemic...
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[2015]
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"So all your friends are working spiffy jobs, making beautiful babies (or thinking about it), inviting you to fabulous parties, and all you're making is this month's rent. (Barely.) In Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime, author Dina Gachman shares the lessons she's learned about how to live large in the cheap seats. Through stories both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny that any hardworking stiff can relate to, Dina reveals all...
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[2016]
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and...
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No one who works hard in America should be poor, says journalist and author Shipler, but he found many of them all across the country, and delves as deeply into the cause and effect of their condition as they would allow. Some he has followed for years now. One finding is that the rise and fall of the nation's official economy has almost no impact on them; another is that they have no time for rage.
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c2008
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Discusses a variety of issues related to climate change, economic instability, and peak oil, including toxic chemical agriculture and rising food prices, with tips for how to focus on family and local communities as an abundant source to help secure the future for the next generation.
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[2012]
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American life can be excessive, to say the least. Thats what Jen Hatmaker had to admit after taking in hurricane victims who commented on the extravagance of her familys upper middle class home. She once considered herself unmotivated by the lure of prosperity, but upon being called "rich" by an undeniably poor child, evidence to the contrary mounted, and a social experiment turned spiritual was born. 7 is the true story of how Jen (along with her...