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Since the Great Recession, personal income and jobs have grown across the country and throughout our region. But that growth is uneven.
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Farm and rural advocacy groups say cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would harm rural communities, at…
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Housing affordability comes down to more than just prices. Affordability is a mix of household income, home prices, and interest rates.While steep…
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As voters weigh economic issues ahead of the November election, Colorado’s job growth is continuing its steady upward trend. Economists with the Leeds…
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It's well known that people are less eager to have children when the economy sours. And it looks like men got really serious about that during the Great Recession.
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For the first time since the start of the recession, child poverty has decreased in Colorado. The child poverty rate in 2013 was 16.9 percent, down from…
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More Coloradans are receiving food assistance today than during the worst months of the Great Recession.Since 2007 the number of people receiving benefits…
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It's been five years since Lehman Brothers collapsed and touched off a banking crisis that is still being felt by the global economy. Today, the banking industry is a lot stronger than it was, but some critics say efforts to reform banking regulations have fallen short of their potential.
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Known as the "Carpet Capital of the World," Dalton, Ga. has struggled and lost thousands of jobs over the past decade. But carpet jobs are returning, and state officials say 7,000 new manufacturing jobs are coming to Georgia over the next five years.
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American households lost roughly $16 trillion in net worth since the recession started in 2007. According to the latest Fed data, we regained about $14.6 trillion, or roughly 91 percent, of it. But let's not break out the champagne glasses just yet.