Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 in November 2012, legalizing the production, sale and use of adult recreational marijuana under Colorado law. Since then, various mechanisms of state government have been looking at how to implement the amendment, including how best to regulate and tax the sale of recreational marijuana. Read the full report: The Fiscal Impact of [...]
Download the full report: An Analysis of the Fiscal Sustainability of State Government (April 2011) Economists talk in terms of whether a phenomenon is cyclical or structural. High unemployment, for example, can be a cyclical problem when uctuations in economic activity trend downward—many laid-off workers will be rehired when the cycle resumes an upswing. Structural unemployment, [...]
Note: This 2011 report was researched and written by the Colorado Futures Center at CSU team when previously attached to the Colorado Economic Futures Center at the University of Denver. Download this report: General Fund Revenues and Expenditures: A Structural Imbalance The 2013 study is available here: The Colorado Sustainability Study Economists talk in terms of whether [...]
