Businesses await details amid looming deadline to fund new state paid family leave

In just five months, every private employer in Colorado will begin paying into a new system that will provide workers, beginning in 2024, up to 12 weeks each year of partially paid leave for major life health events. And business leaders are getting antsy to see how it will work. ….. Loren Furman, president/CEO of […]







In ‘State of the State,’ Colorado Chamber underscores importance of politics

Colorado Chamber President and CEO Loren Furman emphasized that a lot of the larger issues have political roots. “That’s why we have to work together to identify, what are the public policy solutions? What are the funding solutions to some of those challenges that [Valand] just described?” Furman posed. “When I think about our organization, […]




One of Colorado’s leading business groups just endorsed in primary races for the first time. Here’s why.

Colorado Chamber of Commerce this week endorsed 10 candidates running in legislative primaries — a first-time action for an organization that usually stays out of races until the general election but that said the early intervention is necessary as the two parties become increasingly polarized and less willing to engage in more practical business discussions. Read the […]