20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding. Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers. Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.

From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%. The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion. Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024. Nothing trickled down.

Today’s state budget revenue forecast made abundantly clear that growing income inequality in Colorado continues unabated. Those with lower household incomes experienced far slower income growth while higher income households were more insulated from economic shocks. 1/3#copolitics

If you read just one piece of Colorado news today, make it this terrific opinion column by @copolicy.bsky.social's Lydia McCoy. She nails it. #copolitics coloradosun.com/2025/12/18/o...

Tariffs have been wrongly portrayed to the public as a costless alternative to taxes. You are paying for them. Even corporate executives are now admitting to passing the costs of tariffs on to consumers by raising prices. itep.org/president-tr...

The news has been full of heartbreaking and horrifying events these last few days. Here is a bit of good news -- an act of philanthropy that delivered affordable housing to 100 families in the Yampa Valley. #affordablehousing coloradosun.com/2025/12/15/s...

Show up for the graduated income tax knowledge, but stay for the goats! #BellPolicy President & CEO #ChrisdeGruyKennedy updates us on the graduated income tax. And, yes, back by popular demand are the deGruy Kennedy goats. #copolitics #GIT #GoatsAndTaxes

Despite claims to the contrary, Colorado's rules limiting payday loan interest rates have NOT hindered folks with less-than-perfect credit scores in getting loans. Thank you @crlonline.bsky.social for the research and @denverpost.com for the fair story. #copolitics www.denverpost.com/2025/12/11/c...

From all of us, THANK YOU for supporting the Bell during this #ColoradoGives season! And if you haven't had a chance to make a donation, there's still time! We appreciate your support so very much. www.coloradogives.org/organization...

Colorado Treasurer Dave Young gets it exactly right in this @denverpost.com op-ed in which he strongly supports a graduated income tax proposed by Protect Colorado's Future, a coalition the #BellPolicy Center is proud to be part of. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/09/c... #copolitics

It takes us all to fight for economic mobility. As you think about who you'll support this Colorado Gives Day, we hope the #BellPolicy Center is on your list. #ColoradoGives www.coloradogives.org/organization...

It takes us all to fight for economic mobility. As you think about who you'll support this Colorado Gives Day, we hope the #BellPolicy Center is on your list. #ColoradoGives www.coloradogives.org/organization...

We agree. And that is one of the reasons that Protect Colorado's Future is pursuing a graduated income tax, a proposal that would decrease taxes for 98% of Coloradans, and raise taxes for those making above $500k. bellpolicy.org/a-graduated-...

ICYMI: Thoughtful op-ed on the graduated income tax by Lisa Weil of @greatedco.bsky.social and Hillary Jorgensen of Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition. The @bellpolicy.bsky.social Center is proud to partner with them as we pursue a graduated income tax. #copolitics coloradosun.com/2025/11/25/o...

Chris deGruy Kennedy, Pres & CEO of the @bellpolicy.bsky.social Center, says the graduated income tax question coming to the 2026 ballot will cut taxes for 98% of Coloradans. (And yeah, there are some cute goats eating hay in the background.) Learn more by reading this terrific op-ed. bit.ly/49HaAXi

We are headed for endless years of budget cuts if we don't give voters the chance to vote their values. A fairer tax system is the best way to protect and promote public education, rural communities, and Colorado's quality of life. #edcolo #copolitics #coleg

Terrific column by @lisaweil.bsky.social and @hillary5280.bsky.social in today's @coloradosun.com: Colorado needs a graduated income tax, which would cut state income taxes for 98% of Coloradans and raise funds for K-12, healthcare, child care. #copolitics coloradosun.com/2025/11/25/o... #copolitics

A full 70% of initiatives filed at Colorado's Title Board are funded by conservative dark money group Advance Colorado. What they can't achieve by winning elected office, they're trying to accomplish at the ballot box. Great story @coloradotimesrecorder.com coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/11/adva...

We'd be honored to have your support in the 2025 Colorado Gives campaign! #copolitics #cogives2025 www.coloradogives.org/organization...

A win for Colorado consumers! The Bell proudly partnered with other advocacy orgs and legislators to push back on banks that would ignore Colorado's limits on short-term interest rates and fees. Our voters and legislators have been clear. It's time big banks listened. www.cpr.org/2025/11/11/a...

It's time to get going on a progressive income tax. Colorado's future depends on it. #copolitics #coleg

The double-edged sword of vice taxes. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

It's National Family Caregivers Month and we're here to show you how to find some great resources! Thanks to our friends at Colorado Respite Coalition and the Colorado Department of Human Services who put together this campaign. coloradorespitecoalition.org/resources-th...

This is very important from @gregsargent.bsky.social. When the people drawing a gerrymander get too greedy, they can put a lot of their own seats in danger in anything like a wave election. And if there is a 2026 wave, it won’t be Republican.

Progressive school board candidates prevailed in many school board races this year, including Douglas County, Woodland Park, and Mesa County Valley District 51.

Supports for those who want to teach and care for Colorado children are critical, according to research by Bell Economic Mobility Fellows Dr. Rosemarie Allen and Dr. Dorothy Shapland Rodriguez, who studied 105 ECE students at @msudenver.bsky.social bit.ly/4qI5pfG

Remarkable: In Virginia and New Jersey, Spanberger and Sherrill erased the GOP edge among working class. Per exit polls, each got 50% of noncollege voters, big gains over previous contests. Shocker: Anti-Trump politics appeals to working class, too! New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Election Day is tomorrow! If you're still thinking about how to vote on Props LL and MM, check out our 2025 Ballot Guide. We give you the context and analysis so you have facts you need. bit.ly/4nzUHoI #copolitics

Early giving for the annual Colorado Gives campaign began Nov. 1, and we would be honored to be on your list of organizations to support. Colorado Gives Day is a celebration of the work of nonprofits around the state, the generosity of donors, and the stories of impact. bit.ly/43RYerp

Since the ACA passed in 2010, there have been assaults — mostly ineffective — on the historic expansion of health insurance for millions of Americans. H.R. 1 has succeeded in ways that prior efforts had failed. We examine how it will devastate rural Colorado, focusing on the 3rd CD. bit.ly/4nDBDWJ

At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports. This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket. A perfect storm of cruelty.

Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"

Terrific opinion piece by @bellpolicy.bsky.social alum Hunter Nelson about why Colorado entrepreneurs need Congress to reup health care premium tax credits. bit.ly/42T66bV

Bell board member Lily Griego wrote this excellent piece about the value and strength that Dreamers bring to Colorado and the need for Congress to reup #DACA. We're so fortunate to have her on our board. bit.ly/48CCbbA

Labor Exchange - Challenges to Colorado's budget and a solution We hear from Chris deGruy Kennedy from the Bell Policy Center and Joel McClurg from the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger about challenges in Colorado's state budget and a proposed solution with a graduated income tax.

Hey, Colorado voters! Ballots are in the mail starting TODAY. Check out our 2025 Ballot Guide for facts, analysis, and context about Props LL and MM, the two statewide measures on the ballot this year. #copolitics bellpolicy.org/2025-ballot-...

Such a shame that Colorado's bill prohibiting rent-setting algorithms was vetoed. #copolitics #coleg pro.stateaffairs.com/ca/ai-tech/c...

These 14 Colorado cities aren’t complying with state housing laws. It could cost them $280M in grants.

A new KFF study reports: 24 million Americans will see their health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act DOUBLE. Further, 15 million people will be thrown off their health care entirely.   Unacceptable. We can’t subject millions of Americans to this unnecessary suffering.

Save your spot! The @bellpolicy.bsky.social is holding a webinar from noon-1 p.m. on Oct. 22 to talk about Props LL and MM, which will be on your 2025 ballot. We'll also talk about some local child care funding questions in Colorado, and the need for a graduated income tax. Join us! bit.ly/4mWcXsk

On Aging Institute is holding a summit Oct. 28 on aging issues with a power-packed agenda and nearly 20 speakers — including @bellpolicy's Andrea Kuwik. For more information: bit.ly/4mO9Get

Great day doing great work with fabulous partners at the Colorado Title Board! From left: Lea Steed with Great Ed Colorado, Kiyana Newell with @neweracolorado.bsky.social, Caitlin Schneider with @coloradofiscal.bsky.social and Chris deGruy Kennedy with @bellpolicy.bsky.social. Go team!

We're one step closer to getting a graduated income tax on the 2026 ballot so Colorado can make the wealthy pay their fair share. Bell Policy Center President & CEO Chris deGruy Kennedy tells you a little bit about what went down today. Onward! #copolitics #coleg bit.ly/46uJTmE

This is what happens when Medicaid funding is reduced -- the state reinstitutes prior authorizations for outpatient mental health care. #copolitics #coleg www.denverpost.com/2025/09/29/m...

Colorado again leads the way in the teacher pay penalty. What's that? It's the gap between weekly wages of teachers and college graduates working in other professions. This is one of the reasons Colorado needs a graduated income tax - to raise revenue so we can pay teachers fairly. bit.ly/46XBatk

Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements program spent two times as much on administrative costs as on health care costs — while preventing thousands of eligible Georgians from accessing health care. Say it with me: Medicaid work requirements don’t work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqYttKv1c

The video version of our excellent interview with Christina Soliz of @neweracolorado.bsky.social and Chris deGruy Kennedy of @bellpolicy.bsky.social talking about the initiative to take on TABOR and get a progressive income tax in Colorado in 2026 is LIVE on YouTube! Go check it out!

A boon for economic development or a stain on the conscience of a rural Colorado town? This @motherjones.com piece explores opinions of Walsenberg residents as they contemplate the prospect of an immigration detention facility opening in their town. #copolitics www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Bell's 2025 Ballot Guide is done and posted! Every election season, Bell staff scrutinize statewide ballot issues and give you the facts and analysis you need to make informed decisions. Take a look! #copolitics bellpolicy.org/2025-ballot-...