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Black and Latino children in Colorado under 18 saw the steepest drops in poverty.

Black and Latino children under 18 saw the steepest drops in poverty The kitchen table, round and glass, with wooden legs, sits in a sunlit corner of Alejandra Carrera and Clemente Flores’ apartment. It is...

Colorado is using pandemic relief funds to help students go back to college after a decade in which far fewer Black and Latino Coloradans got their degrees.

Latino students at BVSD are about 3.5 times more likely to be suspended than white students. The district and parents disagree on how to address the longstanding problem.

Denver VOICE examined Denver’s poverty rate for Black and Latino seniors as part of Chasing Progress, a Colorado News Collaborative project on social, economic, and health equity among Black and Latino Coloradans. The project analyzed the Census Bureau's 5-year American Community survey data from 2010, 2015 and 2020, a period of historically long economic expansion bookended by the Great Recession and the onset of the pandemic.

Although Melvin Page had a long career in public service, retiring proved to be much more difficult than he thought.

When Rosa Beltran was going through high school in the late 1990s in a small town in southern Colorado, she never expected to graduate.

Hispanic students’ high school graduation rate rose nearly 20 percentage points over the last decade in Colorado, but the pandemic threatens to erode hard-won gains.