Prioritize Colorado’s competitiveness agenda; reimagine tomorrow’s workforce; and invest in “future-forward” infrastructure.
The project collected the skill, insights and hard data from 30 business leaders affiliated with the Colorado Business Roundtable and the economists and supporters of the Common Sense Institute think tank in Denver.
The work is expected to continue for a couple of years involving more business leaders as the recovery progresses, said Debbie Brown, the president of Colorado Business Roundtable.
The report is not all bad news, but it’s not very good, either. Colorado had one of the best economies in the country for labor and business climate and that’s something good to build on, but since those measures were taken the state has lost 125,000 jobs and slipped a little from its high rankings.