- June 12, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
If you’ve been wondering what Denver’s business leaders think about work, jobs and unemployment, a pretty large source of influence had already taken a stand.
“An economy that doesn’t work for all Coloradans doesn’t work for us,” Prosper CO says on its website. The organization was started as a committee two years ago by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and its affiliates as local employers struggled to fill jobs. Prosper took shape last during the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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This shows that the question of whether the huge number of unfilled jobs that remain in Colorado is an issue of too few workers or poor pay is something that business leaders in Colorado’s largest city have been grappling with since before the pandemic.
And in the eyes of the group, it seems like the answer is that it is both.
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