Recent News
December 2021 REDI Report:
Fishers Peak State Park: Evaluating a New Natural Amenity in Southern Colorado, by Skyler Schuck and Josh Rudd
Sewer waste management using artificial intelligence to speed up the maintenance process
December 17, 2021
Webinar: Colorado Ag Workers' Rights Rule Making: An Overview of Key Issues and Resources in the 2021 Policy Process
September 29, 2021
We’re Not New York, LA or Nashville. So What Kind of Music City is Austin? Part 1: Dayglow
September 13, 2021
Colorado State University forms labor issues group in response to new bill
October 11, 2021
October 2021 REDI Report:
Exploring Economic Empowerment and Marginalization using Data from Developing Countries
How Biden's Build Back Better plan could help with housing in Colorado
September 13, 2021
Farmers hit with most disruptive price hikes, supply shortages in decades as pandemic slowdowns catch up to Colorado
September 13, 2021
August 2021 REDI Report:
Agricultural Labor Survey for Employers
by Alexandra E. Hill and Adrian Card
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Small businesses struggle to hire even with improving unemployment rate
August 23, 2021
These are the industries where jobs still haven't returned
July 27, 2021
June 2021 REDI Report:
Colorado’s Unemployment Insurance Experience: 1980-2020
Kendall Stephenson
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April REDI Report:
Gendered Difference in Student Completion due to COVID-19
Niroj Bhattarai and Jaren Seid
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE INVESTS $595,654 IN CARES ACT RECOVERY ASSISTANCE TO LAUNCH PROGRAM TO SUPPORT REGIONAL ECONOMIES IN COLORADO
Colorado ranchers already had beef with Jared Polis. Then came “MeatOut Day."
The Colorado Sun: March 10, 2021
February REDI Report:
New Insights into the Geography of Female Entrepreneurship
Nicholas Kacher and Austin Landini
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Change in Rural Colorado Upcoming Events:
Wednesday, February 24
Economic Innovation and Resiliency in the COVID Era
Tuesday, March 23
Our Water, Lands, and Parks: Investing in and Nurturing Colorado’s Most Loved Assets
Prison for the Poor, Anita Alves Pena discusses her research into the relationship between mass incarceration and inequality through stratification economics. Pena’s research finds that areas with higher income inequality have higher rates of incarceration and that these rates vary when broken down by racial and ethnic groups.
REDI Report December 2020: The Economic Contribution of Nourish Colorado’s Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program, by Erin Love, Allie Bauman, Dawn Thilmany, and Becca B.R. Jablonski
Watch the Virtual Symposium “Iconic Times for Colorado Agriculture: 2020 Learnings and 2021 Futureproofing”
A mix of U.S. and Colorado government leaders and agriculture experts ead a keynote, panel discussion, Q&A and complex conversation, sharing learnings from an unprecedented 2020 year of disruption, while revealing predictions and trends for 2021 and beyond. The symposium includes clear strategies to futureproof for agricultural success in every type of economic, environmental and cultural situation.
December 3, 2020
July 2020: CONSUMER SPENDING REMAINS UNCERTAIN AMID COVID-19
Featuring Stephan Weiler
REDI Report May 2020: The Impact of the CARES Act on Colorado Unemployment Benefits, by Gregory R. Miller, CFA
REDI Report April 2020: Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in Colorado: Health and Economic Risks, by Diksha Arora, Alexandra Bernasek, Teresa Perry, and Elissa Braunstein
Resources on the economics of COVID19:
REDI Report February 2020:
Impact of Open Educational Resources on Student Performance: A Comparative Study, by Niroj Bhattarai and Jaren Seid
Thilmany appointed to joint position with Office of Engagement
Colorado State University’s Office of Engagement has announced that Professor Dawn Thilmany will be serving joint roles as both the associate director for engaged research in the Office of Community and Economic Development and professor in CSU’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. She also remains in her role as associate director of the Regional Economic Development Institute.
