Economy

Climate Jobs Colorado has two goals: speeding and scaling up green energy projects around the state, and getting union labor to do the jobs created by those projects.

The Colorado Energy Office is giving $240,000 to the Colorado River Valley Economic Development Partnership. The regional partnership plans to use the grant to fund a staff position dedicated to economic diversification around clean energy.

On a sunny Saturday this month, Ruth Hatfield was sitting with a friend’s dog on a sidewalk bench in downtown Grand Junction. Back home in Snowmass…

The ski mountains are open and Christmas is less than a month away. In Aspen, many businesses reliant on tourists and the dollars they bring during the…

When ski lifts in Aspen and Snowmass stopped spinning in March, so did the area’s economy. Pitkin County businesses went into an early offseason and have…

The Trump administration extended a freeze on green cards and put a hold on a variety of temporary work visas this week, blocking them until at least…

Local governments have been hit hard during an economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The City of Aspen projected a $25 million dollar loss in…

Because of the COVID-19 crisis, 47% of adults say their households have lost employment income and close to 40% have delayed getting medical care, according to early results of a Census Bureau survey.

Another 3.8 million people filed claims for unemployment last week, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh on the U.S. job market. That brought the total for the past 6 weeks to 30.3 million.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide whether the Trump administration has the authority to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program…