Our state’s Medicaid program, Health First Colorado, is an investment in the health of our communities. The program exists to ensure that poverty is not a barrier to the health care services that Coloradans need to concentrate in school, excel in the workplace, and...
Statement: Our take on Trump’s budget
President Donald Trump’s potentially disastrous $4.1 trillion budget yet again reveals his administration’s disdain, disrespect and distrust for hard-working Americans struggling to make ends meet. On Monday, Trump released a budget that would balloon the federal...
Thoughts on 2017 and the road ahead
Two-thousand-seventeen has been a rough year. The United States of America has had to reckon with some very ugly strains within our society, which became emboldened by the tone and the result of the 2016 presidential election. While Colorado Center on Law and Policy...
5 More Reasons to Oppose the ‘Tax Reform’ Proposals
It seems that more Americans are wising up to the Congressional schemes to indefinitely lavish the country’s wealthiest corporations and individuals with hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts while giving some middle-class families a few morsels of tax relief...
ACTION ALERT: Save the Individual Mandate!
We know that you have read or heard a lot about the tax reform proposals being considered by Congress. Both the House and Senate plans provide big tax breaks for the very wealthy, raise taxes for as many as one third of the middle class and eliminate many important...
Beware of falling taxes
Regardless of your credit rating or income, you likely find “free-money” offers inside your mailbox regularly. Perhaps a financial institution with a respectable-sounding name (like “New America Bank”) offers you a no-interest $24,000 cash advance that you could use...
Trump’s latest action attacks health care and working Coloradans
Chaos causes sleepless nights, panic and financial ruin, and sometimes – when the issue involves international relations or health care – chaos kills. The decision announced yesterday by President Trump to end funding for cost-sharing reductions will engender chaos,...
Here we go again: Graham-Cassidy bill is as bad as previous repeal and replace efforts and it has a chance of passing
Over the summer, congressional leaders tried again and again to eliminate many of the protections and coverage gains resulting from the Affordable Care Act. They took up bills that would have gutted funding for Medicaid coverage and services and modified insurance...
A Better Budget: Preserve funding civil legal-aid funding
President Donald Trump calls his proposed budget for fiscal year 2018, “A New Foundation For American Greatness.” Alternately dubbed the “taxpayer-first budget,” the document proposes $3.6 trillion in cuts over 10 years – largely at the expense of education, health...
Statement: Trump’s DACA order is cruel and unnecessary
The following statement is by Claire Levy, Executive Director of Colorado Center on Law and Policy. Less than one month ago, Colorado Center on Law and Policy issued a statement decrying the animus behind the violence in Charlottesville. The abdication of moral...