More than 700,000 Coloradans, including 200,000 kids, have no health insurance. Many more of us are underinsured or worried about rising health care costs. Since 1999 CPC has led Colorado efforts to lower prescription drug costs and is active in efforts to win affordable health care, hold HMOs accountable, end the nursing shortage, expand health care worker organizing, and end health care disparities that impact people of color, immigrants and low income people in our state. Through our national organization, USAction, we fight to preserve Medicare and Social Security programs that bring social insurance to older Americans.

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Remember how close the 2000 presidential election was? How about the 1998 governor’s race won by 7,000 votes out of 1.5 million cast? Each year, CPC registers thousands of new voters, educates tens of thousands about ballot initiatives, conducts Get Out The Vote drives, and works for you to push elected officials to advocate for a more progressive future for Colorado. In 2002, CPC expanded the scope of our work with a new Southern Colorado organizing program to build progressive power in Pueblo and the San Luis Valley. Also in 2002, CPC conducted the state's largest community based Get Out The Vote drive with an intensive door to door, issue based campaign to tens of thousands of households in Denver, Aurora, and Pueblo. In 2004, CPC will register 20,000 new voters, conduct a door to door GOTV campaign to 100,000 infrequent voters in racially and economically diverse neighborhoods, and distribute 250,000 non-partisan voter education kits.

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• 746,000 Coloradans go without health insurance, nearly 1 in 6 people in the state.
• College tuition goes up, 24% since 2000 while state funding goes down, 32% since 2001.
• 140,000 Coloradans were out of work in 2002 (5.8% unemployment rate in 2003).
• One-fifth of Colorado’s high-school students fail to graduate.
• We are often forced to choose between more prisons or more teachers and professors.
• Some public libraries are not open every day and reading areas are crowded.
• Our first responders often have inadequate tools and facilities to do their job.
• Thousands of our neighbors have lost Medicaid and other health care services.

• Takes on tax breaks for wealthy people and corporations that happen at the expense of low and moderate-income Coloradans.
• Educates Coloradans about the damaging impacts of state and federal budget decisions on families and communities and mobilizes people to change unfair tax and fiscal policies.
• Engages low and moderate-income people, communities of color and other disenfranchised groups to bring new voices to the tax fairness decision-making process.
• Grows and strengthens the tax fairness movement by building relationships with groups around the state through popular education, coalition building, grassroots advocacy and community organizing.

• Win meaningful reforms of the fiscal straight jacket forced on our state by the TABOR law and pass legislation to address the growing income inequalities that confront our neighbors living in poverty.
• In the 2005 legislative session, we monitor and take action on legislation that reforms TABOR, the state budget and other tax and fiscal policies; makes the State Earned Income Tax Credit permanent; and establishes the Colorado Housing Trust Fund and the Colorado Energy Assistance Fund.
• We conduct tax fairness trainings around the state to increase activism to help pass TABOR reform at the legislature or on the November 2005 ballot.
• Through a broad-based educational campaign, we build alliances linking children and family advocate groups with low and moderate-income and people of color groups to make things better for all Coloradans.
• We organize the One Colorado Coalition to unite groups across the state and take on the negative human impacts of the massive state budget cuts of health care, higher education and public services.
• We lead a statewide postcard petition campaign – 10,000 Voices for Tax Fairness from which 1000 grassroots activists will emerge.
• We send legislative action alerts to our members and supporters so that you can get involved in making taxes and fiscal policies fairer.

• Fights the Bush administration’s efforts to make permanent the federal tax cuts, repeal the estate tax and privatize our Social Security system.
• Supports efforts to close offshore corporate tax loopholes and reprioritize how our government spends our money.
• Shows the links between national and state policies that take away state revenue, which could be used for investing in the common good and Colorado’s future. The current system places an unequal burden on low and moderate-income people through more regressive tax structures.

Corporate scandals and a declining economy (for those of us who aren't the wealthiest of the weathy) have left many Coloradans without their jobs, retirement savings, andfaith in the ability of corporate leaders to be trustworthy and ethical. CPC supports locally owned businesses as well as strong federal corporate accountability legislation so workers are protected, not the CEOs. CPC supports the rights of workers to organize with labor unions to gain a stronger voice on the job and we support creation of good paying jobs with benefits. We also push for policies that stop corporate welfare and that require companies seeking public contracts to have strong safety, labor, and environmental records or else they shouldn't get public business. CPC also works to preserve your right to sue if your have been injured or are a victim of medical malpractice. At a national level, CPC works through our national organization, USAction, to defeat Bush administration tax proposals that benefit the very wealthy at the expense of the rest of us. In Colorado, we are co-founders of an exciting new coalition designed to draw increased attention to the human impacts of our state's devastating budget cuts.

CPC is a grassroots membership organization and we depend on your support to help us build power across the state. Please become a member today. Click on "Become a Member" to join us today! Your contribution to CPC is tax-deductible. Thank you.

CPC works to stop big money influence over Colorado politics through research spotlighting the power of developers, the health care industry, and other wealthy and powerful interests. Our work - with partner organizations like Common Cause - includes the first report on the campaign contributions given by big developers to our governor and state legislators; a six year study of contributions to the governor and state legislators by HMOs, tobacco companies, and the insurance industry; and an analysis of big money contributions in the 2003 Denver mayoral race. for more information on these reports, visit <Http://www.moneyincoloradopolitics.org>.

CPC is a grassroots membership organization and we depend on your support to help us build power across the state. Please become a member today. Click on "Become a Member" to join us today! Your contribution to CPC is tax-deductible. Thank you.