This report provides an overview of the health and wellness industry in Colorado, details the industry's strengths and its weaknesses, and looks at opportunities and challenges presented by a changing marketplace. It concludes with recommendations from industry leaders that are designed to promote smart growth while fostering a healthy and productive population.
This document is intended to provide summary economic data concerning the most flood-damaged counties in Colorado -- Boulder, Larimer, and Weld. Each county, described in turn, is distinctly different in terms of industrial base, key employers, and distribution of firm size and employment.
Colorado Department of Higher Education joined forces with College Measures to produce a tool that provides citizens, students and parents with a look at the first year earnings of college graduates from institutions across the state in a wide array of majors. This publication is designed to help inform decisions about both school choice and the outcomes of a specific degree.
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly food stamps) benefits play an important role in meeting the food needs of low-income Coloradoans. Farmers markets provide a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables direct from the farm to consumers. This brief presents key findings of the barriers and opportunities to grow the use of SNAP at farmers markets and direct market producer points of sale. Such efforts have been shown to connect food insecure residents with healthy Colorado products and support Colorado's economy.
Advanced industries (AIs) like the space industry are the high-value engineering- and R&D-intensive industrial concerns that are the prime movers of regional and national prosperity in the U.S. This report affords the opportunity to capitalize on the strengths of Colorado's aerospace sector and develop strategies to collaboratively address the challenges facing the industry.
The Scenic and Historic Byways program is a statewide partnership that provides many benefits to Coloradans. The program features outstanding touring routes all across the state that offer travelers interpretation and identification of key points of interest and services along safe and accessible travel ways, while also helping to protect historic monuments, significant viewsheds, and important environmental resources. This report offers an overview of the many benefits of Colorado's scenic byways and the Scenic and Historic Byways program. While the recreational and educational benefits of the byways are familiar to many travelers, the economic benefits are not as obvious.
