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Recent Economic Justice Articles and News
Purple Door Coffee continues its mission to employ Denver’s unhoused teens and young adults at a new Cap Hill location
The shop does more than just serve up tasty coffee. Purple Door's job readiness program is designed to train and employ Denver’s unhoused teens and young adults and equip them with the soft skills needed to exit life on the streets.
Is giving people cash working? What six months of Denver’s Basic Income Project tell us
The study marks the mid-way point in the nation’s largest basic income study.
Civics for Democracy
Jalaya Liles Dunn contends that civics should “represent the agency and change of each generation, demonstrating the needs of the time and how people showed up for the collective good.”
A new model of renting comes to Arvada — one where tenants get some money back
The goal is to help tenants build wealth and get them to pay rent on time.
New must-see art breaks barriers on the National Mall
A pioneering art exhibition opens on the National Mall this weekend, created around the question: What stories remain untold on the Mall?
View Interfaith Alliance of Colorado’s 2023 Legislative Report
2023 was a landmark legislative session for both Colorado and Interfaith! While there is still plenty of work to do, we were nonetheless able to advocate for numerous policies that have now become the law of the land, improving the lives of millions of Coloradans for generations to come..
‘I have not seen one cent’: billions stolen in wage theft from US workers
Workers in the US have an estimated $50 billion-plus stolen from them every year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, surpassing all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined. The majority of these stolen wages are never recovered by workers.
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The enslavement of Africans during the Transatlantic Slave Trade tore millions of people away from their families, deprived them of their human rights and left trauma spanning generations. The racist legacy reverberates today in harmful prejudices and beliefs that continue to impact people of African descent across the world.
SNAP benefits in Colorado are changing this month. Here’s how to get more food assistance
The federal government has ended a pandemic-era expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP. That means the half-million Coloradans who use the program will see smaller benefit checks starting in March.
How Aurora, Colorado is using mobile ‘public spaces’ to address the challenges of suburban social service delivery
Despite rising suburban poverty nationwide, social services have not caught up with the needs of residents in sprawling suburbs, and nonprofits there often must stretch their operations across larger service delivery areas with fewer resources than those in larger cities.
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