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Sept. 16, 2011

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Sides battle over Prop 103's predicted effect on employment

 

Fiscal policy
Education News Colorado: Prop. 103 battle joined
The political fight over raising state taxes to fund schools and colleges started in earnest Thursday with dueling news conferences over an opposition study about the possible impact of Proposition 103 on employment. Editor's note: The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute analyzed opponents' claims in a paper issued yesterday.

Colorado News Agency commentary: 'TIF' projects reward new friends at expense of old ones
If you're an existing business in town, no ice cream for you.  Just keep on coughing up the taxes you owe and finance your own expansion, even as a TIF is subsidizing what may be your competition.

Vail Daily: Avon council gets first look at 2012 budget
Property tax revenue expected to drop by $500,000 or more from 2011 to 2012.


Jobs and economic security
The Denver Post: Denver sick-pay supporters stress public health
Supporters of mandatory sick pay for Denver-based employees make public health a cornerstone of their argument, saying the proposal would protect restaurant patrons, nursing-home residents and day-care kids from employee-borne illness. But health leaders are not universally on board, with the Colorado Hospital Association prominent among those speaking out against the measure's imposition on private businesses.

Colorado Springs Gazette commentary: Hundreds pursue common dream - a job
On Thursday Mr. Biggs Event Center was a place where reality and optimism collided; a job fair for which 900 souls had pre-registered and, shoulder-to-shoulder, they filled the huge room with their hopes and dreams.


Health care
Pueblo Chieftain: Eye-popping salaries proposed for health care exchange
The average annual salary of a health benefits exchange employee would exceed $125,000 under the plan. The highest salaries would be  paid to the CEO ($200,400) and chiefs of finance, operations and communications would make $165,000 each -- just $7,200 less than the White House director of communications. 

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