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What’s Working: Colorado home prices are still up even as real estate market experiences sales slump
Depending on your perspective, buying a house today is better or worse for your pocketbook. Plus: How Coloradans are coping with higher prices.
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Why the maker of a Denver-based job app says there isn’t a restaurant labor shortage
Restaurants say it’s been hard to find workers, especially for jobs in the kitchen, bussing tables and “back of the house.”
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What’s Working: Hello entrepreneurs, it’s Denver Startup Week!
It’s year 11 for the annual entrepreneurial fest that is Denver Startup Week, which begins Monday. And it’s still packed with speakers and sessions on how to start, run and grow a business. It’s also free. And from what we’ve learned about the missing workers in the pandemic, a chunk of them went on to […]
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What’s Working: 44% of Colorado small businesses surveyed have put hiring on hold
But 44% of small businesses surveyed in Colorado have put hiring on hold.
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What’s Working: Colorado Springs is offering new and expanding businesses $5,000 per employee they hire
Consumers are spending less, productivity is dropping and there are still a ton of job openings. Is that why a recession may be coming? But first, let’s get to business. Colorado continues to invest in attracting startups and small businesses, if you recall last week’s dive into the state’s own venture capital agency. This week, […]
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What’s Working: Here’s how Colorado plans to dole out $104.7 million to small businesses
Colorado’s unemployment rate fell for the sixth straight month to 3.3% in July, the lowest (again) since the pandemic began but not quite down to its pre-pandemic low of 2.8%. However, a state economist thinks we’ll get back to that low rate, despite talk of recession, by the end of the year. But first, last […]
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What’s Working: Colorado employers say there’s still a labor shortage even as more jobs are filled
Colorado employers may be facing some of the highest inflation in decades, not to mention talk of recession (no, one hasn’t been officially announced). But one thing that may be finally easing up is attracting enough workers. It’s still bad, just not as bad as it was a year ago, said Curtis Englehart, executive director […]
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What’s Working: Colorado’s economy is still growing, but a slow down has added to recession fears
A day after the head of America’s banking system said the nation isn’t in a recession, the U.S. Commerce Department said the nation’s economy shrank. Again. For the second quarter in a row. Conventional wisdom often calls this a recession — or “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and […]
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Where Colorado jobs would be if the pandemic hadn’t happened
What’s Working: A version of this story first appeared in a segment of our weekly What’s Working column on July 23, 2022. Additional details are included in this story. Read the full column. >> Sign up for the newsletter Thanks to a gain of 4,500 nonfarm payroll jobs in June, Colorado has now recovered 110.1% of jobs lost […]