'All they're talking about is, 'Oh, my God, there's so many people moving here, people are flocking to the state.' But they're not watching the numbers.'
"All they're talking about is, 'Oh, my God, there's so many people moving here, people are flocking to the state.' But they're not watching the numbers."
While that might sound like good news to the Coloradans who blame transplants for clogging the state's highways or driving up housing prices, Garner warns that it will have major implications, from closing schools to leaving job openings unfilled. National economic factors and recessions have slowed migration in Colorado and the country at large over the past two decades, she says. First it was the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, then the Great Recession, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We need to keep an eye on whether Colorado is competitive. Can Colorado continue to attract and retain the labor force that it needs?" she notes."Historically, we have. Lately, we have not attracted as much as we typically have. Once that slowdown in the child population hits prime moving migration ages, 20 to 35, how does that impact Colorado?"
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