Posted on 22 February 2010. Tags: Business Tax Breaks, Business Tax Exemptions, CACI, Chuck Berry, Colorado Association of Commerce & Industry
“Colorado lost 198,400 jobs last year, and our state’s unemployment rate for January was 7.5 percent for January. Consequently, we can only urge the legislature to focus on assisting employers — whose ability to retain and create jobs is absolutely vital to economic recovery —instead of burdening businesses with the tax bills.”
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Posted on 08 January 2010. Tags: Colorado Association of Commerce & Industry, Department of Labor and Employment, Don Mares, Federal Loan, Federal Loans, Jack Pommer, Joint Budget Committee, Unemployment Insurance Fund, Wayne Peel
Colorado is borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government to keep afloat its unemployment-insurance fund, which will go broke in two weeks without the cash infusion.
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