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September 10, 2019

View From the Top is Monday, September 16th from 7:00 am to 9:00 am at Mile High Station. Join us as we hear from top leaders from companies here in Colorado on the challenges and opportunities they face every day. 

Registration closes Friday at 12 pm.

Support For Business  Roundtable Statement Spans Political Spectrum
Opinion leaders, politicians and journalists from across the political spectrum are expressing support for the Business Roundtable revised statement on the purpose of a corporation. In a column for Bloomberg Opinion, "Serve the Community? Companies Always Have," Ramesh Ponnuru, an editor for the conservative National Review, defended the statement from critics from both the right and left. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, called the statement "a new and groundbreaking stance" in a Newark Star-Ledger op-ed that focused on workforce issues, "Want proof N.J. is leading the way? Look at what the nation leading CEOs just did." USA TODAY also weighed in with an editorial, "Business Roundtable's new commitment to more than shareholders is right on the money."

Experts predict 85% of available jobs in 2030 have yet to be invented. While we don't know what jobs our kids will have in the future, we do know they will need ingenuity, collaboration and emotional intelligence to succeed. As we've searched the state for the most transformational schools and districts, here are five things businesses need to know about their future workforce. 



Colorado Business Roundtable was excited to attend Gov. Jared Polis signing of his Executive Order on the Future of Work here in Colorado. 
Saying that Colorado must do more to prepare workers for the rapidly changing economy, Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday issued an executive order to create the Office of Future Work, which will analyze the effect of evolving technology, skill needs and demographic changes and develop priorities on how the state can meet those challenges. 

When the mines closed and the railroad left town in the 1980s, "pretty much everyone in Salida was unemployed," Mayor P.T. Wood remembers. And when the West Slope oil and gas industry took a nosedive in 2014, sales tax revenue in Fruita plummeted 90%. Both communities have filled at least part of the void left by the West's traditional mining and drilling industries with recreation-based economies-anchored by kayaking and rafting in Salida, which sits along the Arkansas River, and by mountain biking in Fruita, with its miles of desert trails. 



Thank you Common Sense Policy Roundtable for putting on a panel discussion on Proposition CC. 
Employers who packed hours-long committee hearings earlier this year to give limited time-limited testimony on a proposal to establish a mandatory, paid-family-leave program for all private-sector workers are being asked once again to give Colorado officials their thoughts - this time via email, letter or submitted form. 

Join AT&T on Tuesday, September 17th, to learn more about Believe Denver, and how you can make an impact in the Denver community. This special event will formally launch our Believe Denver Initiative. Learn more about Believe Denver and how to get involved. 

The event is September 17th at History Colorado from 10 am to 12 pm. 

The UK is one of the world's fastest-growing tech hubs. As the #1 destination in Europe for inward investment and tech talent, and home to more unicorns than any other European country, the UK has a lot to offer to US companies. Whether you're just starting your business or already looking at international expansion, join us to learn about what makes the UK's tech ecosystem thrive and how you can benefit from it. 

Attend the panel on Tuesday, September 17th from 10:00 am to 11:30 am at the Commons on Champa. 

Organizers of a petition to recall Democratic Gov. Jared Polis announced Friday that they failed to collect enough signatures to put the recall to a vote. Dismiss Polis and the Resist Polis political action committee launched the petition drive 60 days ago in response to actions by the governor in his first year in office. Those included signing bills on the National Popular Vote, revisions to the state's sex education curriculum, the red-flag, gun law and reforms to oil and gas regulations. 

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