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Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo wants every Colorado business to verify that new hires are U.S. citizens, a proposal that prompted cries of racism from critics.
Tancredo filed a ballot proposal Friday that would force the 2011 Colorado legislature to pass a law requiring businesses to use a federal program to check the immigration status of all newly hired workers.
The proposal is aimed for the 2010 ballot.
A new report released today shows that good paying jobs are in small supply throughout the West.
In Colorado, for every 15 people looking for jobs, there is only one job opening that will pay the $29.71 needed to support single parent with two children, according to the report released by the Northwest Federation of Community Organization.
Of all job openings in the state, less than a third offer a wage that could support a family, the reported noted. The report, The 2009 Job Gap: Searching for Work that Pays, also found that in 2009, job-seekers in Colorado have spiked by more than 50 percent.
“This report puts the struggles of job-seekers into clear focus, and points to the growing need for lawmakers in Denver and D.C. to take action to ensure that all Coloradans can find work that pays,” says Ben Hanna from the Colorado Progressive Coalition in a prepared release..
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to require health insurance companies to provide free mammograms and other preventive services to women, and it turned back a Republican challenge to Medicare savings that constitute the single largest source of financing for the bill.
The 61-to-39 vote on health benefits for women would, in effect, override new recommendations from a federal advisory panel that said routine mammograms should begin at age 50, rather than 40..
Voters in Colorado care about clean elections and voted through a ballot initiative specifically to enact laws governing campaign finances in 2002. Lawbreakers have been caught and fined. But that’s apparently where enforcement ends. The list of groups violating the law includes an increasing number that simply skirt the fines judges have levied against them. Secretary of State Bernie Buescher now seems determined to go after the deadbeats, but his office told the Colorado Independent that the law, as it stands now, simply lacks teeth.
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