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Issue brief volume 20-13
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This issue brief provides an overview of the Colorado unemployment insurance (UI) program, including UI benefits, funding, and solvency in the context of recent economic downturns. Economic downturns result in increased claims on regular state UI benefits. The speed and intensity of changes in UI claims during the COVID-19 Pandemic have been unprecedented.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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This memorandum provides an overview of federal, state, and local programs to assist small business owners and employees in Colorado during the economic instability caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19). In order to qualify for assistance programs as a small business, a business must meet certain size standards that vary according to the program. The size standards may include a maximum number of employees and maximum average annual business receipts...
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Issue brief volume 21-05
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This issue brief provides a summary of the three pieces of federal legislation that were passed in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19, coronavirus, public health emergency.
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2020.
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During this pandemic, the State is working to make life as sustainable as possible, while ensuring we do not surpass our public health and health care capacities. Carefully maintaining the effective reproductive or R number at or below 1 helps prevent the exponential spread of the COVID-19 virus. Different levels of "openness" that are standardized at the county level will help maintain this delicate balance.
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2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented drop in traditional in-person care and a rapid expansion of care delivered remotely via telemedicine. This brief uses a unique, Colorado-specific source of clinical data to analyze the shift toward telemedicine, which Coloradans were able to access care through telemedicine, for what types of care, and the implications of these findings for the future of telemedicine in Colorado.
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2020.
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Energy consumption and usage has varied across the country due to COVID-19. The pandemic has caused significant changes in energy supply and demand patterns. Domestic oil demand has decreased since the beginning of 2020 because of less travel and decreased economic activity throughout the world.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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The Hybrid Learning Guide is designed to show paths and points of interests as an organization transitions into a Hybrid Learning instructional model. This content is specifically designed in response to Colorado schools that may find themselves needing to transition to a Hybrid Learning model for instruction during the 2020-21 school year as a response to COVID-19 and those schools that are planning to use any form of remote learning.
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2020.
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This memorandum provides an overview of how the spread of the coronavirus and associated disease (COVID-19) has prompted insurers, federal and state health organizations, and behavioral and mental health organizations to adopt policies that support and encourage the use of telehealth. Telehealth enables long-distance health care and other health-related services to occur with the use of telecommunication technology. Telehealth can assist in the...
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2020.
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Colorado's arts and cultural sector is a complex ecosystem with venues and businesses of various sizes, shapes and missions. The purpose of this guide is to provide examples and recommendations that inform your plan for reopening to the public. These are only examples of strategies that could be employed, not a recommendation or endorsement. Each organization must determine the operational guidelines that work with its unique situation and meet guidance...
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2020.
Description
Colorado's arts and cultural sector is a complex ecosystem with venues and businesses of various sizes, shapes and missions. The purpose of this guide is to provide examples and recommendations that inform your plan for reopening to the public. These are only examples of strategies that could be employed, not a recommendation or endorsement. Each organization must determine the operational guidelines that work with its unique situation and meet guidance...
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2020.
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This memorandum provides an overview of temporary changes the Colorado Division of Insurance (DOI) implemented in response to the spread of COVID-19 and associated declaration of a disaster emergency. The DOI regulates the insurance industry in Colorado, including insurance carriers selling life, health, title, and property and casualty insurance, and insurance agents. This memorandum details the emergency regulations and bulletins issued by the DOI...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted almost every aspect of society, including the criminal justice system, leaving crowded courts, prisons and jails especially susceptible to the outbreak. This memorandum provides an overview of how courts and other sectors of the criminal justice system in Colorado are handling this public health emergency.