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Fighting (and winning!) for the right to be pregnant on the job
Christina from Colorado shares how employers endanger pregnant workers by refusing to allow basic accommodations — and ultimately how this impacts the wage gap.
Bill that provides more rights for working parents moves forward
DENVER — The Colorado House of Representatives approved by a voice vote a bill that provides more rights for working parents. “You’re trying to juggle three other lives plus your own and a work schedule,” explained DeAna Jimenez, a single mother of three. HB17-1001 allows parents to take unpaid leave to attend their kid’s extracurricular […]
Colorado’s mobile home parks are disappearing, but a proposed bill would try to save them
The Aspen Times By Jack Queen Mobile home parks can be integral components of a community’s affordable housing mix, but they also carry an element of instability: Residents typically own the pre-fabricated, rectangular houses they live in, but not the monthly-rented land underneath. That means that if the owner of the park decides to sell […]
