July, 2026
Latest REDI Reports
- August 2026
- Sabina Regmi, Dawn Thilmany, Rebecca Hill
- Green Industry, Jobs, Labor
- Colorado’s allied Green industry generated between $6.54 billion and $11.29 billion in total economic activity in 2024, including $3.74 billion to $6.42 billion in direct industry output.
- The industry supported between 39,890 and 68,279 jobs statewide, generated $2.45–4.23 billion in labor income, and contributed $4.21–7.10 billion in value added to Colorado’s economy.
- Colorado’s 2021 Agricultural Labor Rights and Responsibilities Act (ALRRA) guarantees farmworkers access to healthcare providers but does not specify funding.
- In Colorado, 63% of primary care shortage areas are rural (HRSA, 2025) and spending on emergency room visits translates into an estimated $800 million a year in avoidable costs (CIVHC, 2015).
- Community development is moving beyond growth-based indicators toward multidimensional measures of well-being, but the proliferation of indices raises new questions about which outcomes align with community values.
- Applied to climate resilience, this framing reveals that prosperity and climate resilience indicators are only weakly related — and vary across space.
- May 2026
- Yvette Uwineza, Rebecca Hill, Jordan Suter
- Irrigation
- The lower Arkansas River Valley has experienced long-term declines in irrigated acreage as agricultural water has been transferred to other uses.
- Irrigated land represents a small share of total acreage in the region, but it supports higher-value crop production and local economic activity.
- Using an input-output model, we estimate that losing approximately 3,043 irrigated acres per year reduces regional economic activity by about $4.4 million to $4.9 million annually.