Colorado Voters to Consider Child Care Funding Measures
This election season, eight Colorado communities will ask voters to consider new taxes to support child care efforts.
The ballot measures, mostly in mountain resort areas, represent a record number of local pitches for money to bolster a low-margin sector and help working families struggling to find child care or cover tuition costs.
- Five communities (Chaffee, Custer, Eagle, Gilpin, and Hinsdale counties) are asking voters to approve lodging tax increases, with child care efforts as one of several potential uses for the new funding.
- Ouray County is asking voters to pass a new lodging tax.
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Author's summary: Colorado voters consider child care funding measures.