The state will have about $149 million additional revenue during the next fiscal year than the Office of State Planning and Budget originally forecasted. The overall increase is due, according to a press release from Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office, to continued improvement in the job market and increased business confidence. Sustained production is buildinga foundation [...] [...]
A new budget report released Tuesday predicts the government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September, a slight dip from last year but still very high by any measure. The Congressional Budget Office report also says that annual deficits will remain in the $1 trillion range for the [...] [...]
Nick Kittle has been chosen to be the city’s innovation and sustainability manager, reporting to chief of staff Steve Cox. It’s the second new position created by Steve Bach since he became mayor this spring. Kittle’s new job is to streamline many of the city’s processes and policies, making it easier and more efficient for [...] [...]
The nation’s health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report released Thursday. How much is that? Including government and private money, health care spending in 2020 will average $13,710 for every man, woman and [...] [...]
The Treasury Department said Thursday it has exited its investment in Chrysler LLC after Italian automaker Fiat SpA purchased the U.S. government’s remaining holdings in the auto company. Fiat paid $560 million to the Treasury Department for the government’s 98,000 shares. Fiat has run the company since it emerged from bankruptcy protection in June 2009. [...] [...]
A wave of government layoffs in September outpaced weak hiring in the private sector, pushing down the nation’s payrolls by a net total of 95,000 jobs. The unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent last month, the Labor Department said Friday. The jobless rate has now topped 9.5 percent for 14 straight months, the longest stretch [...] [...]
by admin Published: April 15,2010
Tags: government
It's Tax Day - and that means lots of protests against the size of federal government.
More than a dozen protests are planned across Colorado today to mark April 15, the day most federal income taxes are due. [...]
Government and industry are going to have to work together to combat the cyber threat – and there’s no time to waste since the threat is growing daily. Military leaders and industry representatives all said the same thing: the United States is late to cyber war, and has significant enemies willing to exploit that. Michael [...] [...]
Southern Colorado business owners and managers are invited to an April 6 government contract procurement workshop at the Denver Federal Center on April 6. The workshop will update and assist those interested in learning how to compete for, and win, government contracts, and is being hosted by Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet. Work sessions [...] [...]
During the past three weeks five local companies were notified they’d been awarded contracts for military and government work. The big winner was Sanborn Map Co. which won a $12.5 million contract award from the Government Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service to provide “environmental services.” A $9.57 million federal contract modification was also awarded to [...] [...]
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