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Other news summaries

Grasscatcher, from the National Conference of State Legislatures

Today's Health News, from The Colorado Trust

Colorado daily news roundup, from Stateline

Daily Health Policy Report, from Kaiser Health News
   Colorado's budget healthy, but concerns loom

 

Fiscal Policy

State lawmakers received their mixed news during the regular forecast of the state's tax revenue Wednesday. The quarterly report to the Joint Budget Committee is sort of an economic check-up for Colorado. The news on the state budget was good, but there were gloomy overtones about the future of the economy

  

See also: Bloomberg Businessweek: Colorado finishes fiscal year with more revenue and Denver Post: Colorado's tax revenue exceeded expectations

 

Colorado Springs Gazette: Report: Colorado's oil industry tax rates hit a low
A report released Wednesday found Colorado had the second-lowest effective tax rate for the gas and oil industry among comparable western states.  

 

Family Economic Security
Over the course of an intense, sometimes testy hour, officials from Metropolitan State College of Denver met on Wednesday with members of the state legislature's Joint Budget Committee to discuss its controversial new tuition rate for illegal immigrant students.

 

Health Care
Though no one outside the Supreme Court has an inkling how it is going to rule on President Obama's health-care law, the political fallout - at least initially - is easy to predict.
 
Jobs and the Economy

Tens of millions of people worldwide will be condemned to long-term joblessness unless global leaders make significant changes to address unemployment and worker training, according to a new study. Between 90 and 95 million low-skill workers -- or 2.6 percent of the global workforce -- will not be needed by employers by 2020 and will be vulnerable to permanent joblessness, according to a report released Thursday by the McKinsey Global Institute.