Tag: Migration
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Colorado hit a population milestone in 2025; numbers ‘don’t lie,’ but what do they say?
Colorado is: full Standing room only How ‘bout, More crowded than it was but less crowded than we thought? Local takeaways from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent data drop are too complex for bumper sticker treatment, but here’s the banner in a nutshell: During a year in which the U.S. population growth rate slowed…
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Denver on track to spend almost $40 million on influx of immigrants, analysis says
The support has cost the city more than $29 million this year, Denver says
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WATCH: Venezuelan migrants make dangerous journey to United States
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Translated directly to, “the first rest,” this video was shared with the Denver Gazette by a recent Venezuelan migrant named Bryan, and shows migrants resting in a heavily-forested section of the journey from Venezuela to the United States, where Bryan ultimately ended up in Denver shelter. Most migrants we spoke to it had taken nearly…
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Recent Colorado laws will cost businesses $2 billion, analysis shows
A slew of recent laws — notably a new family leave program — will cost businesses billions of dollars just as the flow of people coming into Colorado is dropping, a predicament that poses risks to the state’s competitiveness prognosis, according to a new analysis from a think tank. The study from the Common Sense Institute said the…
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Denver helped more than 5,000 immigrants since December
More than 5,000 immigrants from South and Central America have arrived in Denver since early December when an influx of new arrivals prompted city leaders to set up temporary shelters and declare an emergency. Denver hit the milestone over the weekend. During the height of the migration, the city saw busloads of immigrants from El…
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Climate changes forcing competition between species, increasing extinction risk, CU Boulder study finds
Research led by the University of Colorado Boulder has found that climate change is putting some species at greater risk of extinction by forcing competition between species. The findings, published last week, confirm that competition slows a species’ expansion into new territories over generations. Researchers used tiny beetles to model these trends in controlled experiments.…
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Wright: Solving the affordable housing crisis
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado is facing an affordable housing crisis as both the demand and the cost of entry-level homes continues to skyrocket, while housing construction, particularly in the areas of condominiums, remains largely nonexistent. Some have argued the absence of affordable housing construction, which condominiums and starter…