Colorado
State Government
Governor
Jared Polis (D)
State Senate
23
Democrats,
12
Republicans
State House
46
Democrats,
19
Republicans
Economic well-being - Colorado
Extreme poverty rate
0.1
Food insecurity
0.1
Minimum wage
14.8
Percent of working families under 200% of the poverty line
0.2
Poverty rate
9.6%
Unemployment rate
4.2
Number of Black or African American children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
Number of Hispanic or Latino children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
Percent of individuals who are uninsured
7.9
Poverty by demographic - Colorado
Child poverty rate
0.1
Number of Asian and Pacific Islander children below 200% poverty
N/A
Number of Black or African American children below 200% poverty
N/A
Number of Hispanic or Latino children below 200% poverty
163000
Senior poverty rate
9.2 %
Women in poverty
2,891,826.0
Denver Business Journal, March 7, 2012: Walton Family Foundation gives $8M for Colorado education reform in 2011
"'Grants were made to organizations and programs that empower parents, particularly in low-income communities, to choose among quality, publicly funded schools for their children,' the foundation said in a news release. To date, it has donated more than $1 billion to education reform."
Daily Town Talk, January 14, 2012: Rapides schools' homeless liaison offers help for students and families
"Lynda Ellington believes a child can come from a loving family and live in a nice home but still be homeless. Ellington, the Rapides Parish School District's homeless liaison, said the number of homeless students in Rapides Parish is a major problem that only awareness and education can solve."
The New York Times, September 19, 2011: Responding Before a Call Is Needed
"The original threads of community paramedicine trace back to places like Nova Scotia, which began experimenting with the idea around 2000 when a doctor who had served two remote islands off the Canadian coast retired; paramedics were recruited to fill the gap. Around the mid-2000s, San Francisco, and later San Diego and Washington, D.C., among others, began sending paramedics into homeless populations, aiming to reduce 911 calls."