PRESS RELEASE: Lydia McCoy to lead CCLP as next executive director
CCLP Opposes Proposition 121: State Income Tax Rate Reduction Grows Inequities
CCLP STRONGLY OPPOSES Proposition 121, which would permanently reduce the state income tax rate for individuals and corporations from 4.55% to 4.40%. This decrease would reduce state revenues by almost $400 million per year. If state revenues fall too far below the...
Introducing our new summer legal interns
We are happy to introduce our summer 2021 legal interns, Emiliano Salazar and Tessa Stackow! Emiliano Salazar is a rising 2L at the University of Colorado Law School. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2012 with degrees in...
Colorado’s medical debt credit reporting law takes effect
Communities Against Poverty 2022 Recap
On the 1st of December, CCLP hosted our annual Communities Against Poverty celebration, honoring the Champion of Economic Justice & Equity Awards winners for 2022. Those in attendance learned more about the incredible accomplishments and advocacy of our awardees,...
Income & Self-Sufficiency Policy Forum Recap, Part 2: Policy ideation, room for improvement and the challenges ahead
How Can We Make Income More Sustainable and Equitable? While there are substantial barriers, Ms. Robert provided our audience with some positives about Colorado. Currently, Colorado ranks 2nd to Nebraska in having a high labor force participation at 69.4%, so it’s...
CCLP at Federal CFPB Hearing: Medical debt is a solvable crisis
Reintroducing the Self-Sufficiency Standard
Income & Self-Sufficiency Policy Forum Recap, Part 1: The Self-Sufficiency Standard and barriers to self-sufficiency
At the beginning of September, CCLP hosted its second Policy Forum series event on Income and the Self-Sufficiency Standard in Colorado. We are grateful to those who were able to join us in conversation. Attendees raised important questions about the income trends as...