Colorado rules

alternateorg on January 9, 2004

Rules the bottom of the list…:

  • –49th in income growth in the country
  • –50th in immunizations for children
  • –For the first time since the Great Depression, Colorado is headed toward two straight years of job losses, economists said. (Daily Camera, 11/8/03)
  • –Nation-leading bankruptcy and foreclosure rates
  • –48th in high-school graduation rates
  • –140,000 Coloradans can’t find jobs; 650,000 Coloradans can’t afford health insurance; and 400,000 Coloradans – more than one quarter of them, children –live in poverty.
  • –Upper education bankrupt by 2010
  • –$30 billion transportation investment deficit
  • –46th in the country in special education funding
  • –One of 6 worst in the country in tobacco cessation efforts

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  1. pil January 9, 2004 at 5:59 pm

    one of these days I’ll be proactive and post useful stuff like this on your blog…

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