As President Trump signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act into law Wednesday, Business Roundtable issued a statement thanking the Administration and Congress for pushing USMCA across the finish line. “Modernizing trade with our two largest trading partners benefits American workers, businesses and communities,” said Tom Linebarger, Chairman and CEO, Cummins. “USMCA will preserve and strengthen trade that supports over 12 million American jobs.” Lance Fritz, Chairman, President & CEO, Union Pacific, added: “Business Roundtable and its CEO members look forward to working closely with policymakers to ensure that USMCA implementation strengthens North American competitiveness.” See also transcript from White House signing ceremony.
Mapping Our Future is a new digital tool to share information about our community’s schools: their diversity, their successes and how your tax dollars are being spent to prepare the next generation of leaders. This interactive map is part of the Cherry Creek School District’s commitment to transparency and keeping our community informed.
All that spiked seltzer, beer and, increasingly, water-being sold in aluminum cans is setting up Broomfield-based Ball Corp. to really crush it in the beverage business. Reporting surging fourth-quarter profits, Ball Corp. executives Thursday said the 140-year-old business expects the next few years to be especially good for the company. More kinds of beverages are ending up in cans, and Ball has only just started pushing the message that aluminum cans are the environmentally sustainable replacement for plastic.
Colorado Democratic legislative leaders are poised to introduce a bill establishing a paid-family-and-medical-leave system in this state for the sixth time in the past seven years - but will offer a major compromise to the business community this year and propose that the new mandate be done through a private-insurance-market system rather than a state-run social program.
Before Democratic legislative leaders even have introduced the latest version of a bill to create a paid-family-and-medical-leave system for all private-sector workers in Colorado, they are being met with a host of concerns from the business groups to whom the compromise bill was supposed to appeal - as well as a lukewarm reaction from the advocates who have backed their efforts over the past six years.
Colorado Business Roundtable: Colorado Business Roundtable (COBRT) works to promote a thriving economy in Colorado through sound public policy by partnering with the business community and government. We believe good public policy will drive meaningful and lasting economic growth for Colorado where businesses can succeed.
