Classroom churn, school funding and more affect student success, study finds

The CSU System commissioned aimed at analyzing how social factors encompassing everything from income to employment opportunity to housing impact student success. The research is unique in that rather than following a cohort of students like many other studies of educational achievement, it uses local geography as a unit of analysis.
Almost half of Colorado households have incomes of less than $75,000. Housing policy must not forget them.

The Colorado Futures Center recently released Housing Affordability Update: Focusing on Where the Need is Greatest. This update, funded by the Colorado Health Foundation, refreshes the Center’s pre-pandemic work exploring factors […]
The Denver Post: Colorado economy starting to wobble as momentum slows

Colorado’s economy is still growing, but it is losing momentum, leaving it vulnerable to outside shocks and a recession later this year, according to the latest ColoradoCast from Colorado State University.
New ColoradoCast economic forecast points to negative growth, but not a recession

The latest economic forecast from the Colorado Futures Center predicts that the state’s economy will continue slowing in coming months, and that growth may even turn negative for a brief period in early 2023.
A market ‘correction’ won’t solve the state’s affordable housing challenge without an unprecedented drop in home prices

While recession is not yet in the forecast, Colorado’s economy is showing vulnerabilities to broader macroeconomic conditions and is exhibiting signs of slowing.
The latest ColoradoCast economic forecast: slowing, but still growing

A new economic forecast from the Colorado Futures Center predicts that the state’s economy will continue growing in coming months, though at an increasingly slower rate.
Colorado Futures Center and Keystone Policy Center report: Low share of affordable housing for Colorado teachers

Less than 20% of homes in Colorado are valued at a price that is affordable for teachers earning an average salary, according to a new report released today by the Keystone Policy Center.
ColoradoCast forecasts that economic growth will slow in coming months

The ColoradoCast, the state’s only short-term economic forecast, forecasts that Colorado’s economic growth will slow considerably in the fourth quarter of 2022.
ColoradoCast forecasts that economic growth will slow slightly in coming months

The ColoradoCast, the state’s only short-term economic forecast, shows that the economy will be growing at an annual rate of 4.47% through June 2022.
New short-term Colorado forecast finds growth will continue through April 2022

Economic activity in Colorado rebounded to its pre-pandemic high in September 2021 and the economy is projected to continue to expand, according to a new quarterly report release by the reestablished Colorado Futures Center at Colorado State University System.