When Joyce Sterling, a law professor at the University of Denver, studied pay discrepancies among lawyers in the 1990s, she quickly learned there was a big pay gap between men and women with the same skill set. A key finding? “Women don’t always know they’re paid less,” she said. More than a decade later, she […]
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Jared Polis won’t get one top priority this session: his income tax cut
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis made a state income tax cut one of his top priorities in his first year. He won’t get it. The opposition from Democratic lawmakers and his allies and the complicated nature of the policy shift led to the proposal’s demise before it could be introduced in the current legislative session. The […]
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Opinion: Equal pay for equal work — make it happen now
There is a bill under consideration in the Colorado legislature that is not getting the attention it deserves. Senate Bill 19-085, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, sponsored by Sens. Jessie Danielson and Brittany Pettersen and Reps. Janet Buckner and Serena Gonzalez-Gutierrez, puts forth the simple proposition that women in Colorado continue to systemically […]
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High-country Colorado towns wrangle big-city problems with homelessness
DURANGO — From his vantage point in a homeless camp on a scrubby mesa above Durango, Corey Davis could look down this summer on what resembled a Western-themed diorama. Tiny figures darted up and down Main Avenue as a coal-fired steam train chugged out of a historic depot trailing a black cloud of coal smoke. […]