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Colorado among top 10 friendliest states for LGBTQ-owned businesses
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Colorado is the Tenth-friendliest state for LGBTQ-owned companies and staff, in line with a report printed this Delight month.
What’s occurring: Out Management’s State LGBTQ+ Enterprise Local weather Index gave Colorado a rating of 86.33 — the identical tally earned final 12 months.
Why it issues: Corporations in areas which might be brazenly hostile to LGBTQ+ rights may have hassle attracting workers, particularly at a time when there’s heightened competitors for expertise amongst employers.
- Inclusive insurance policies that foster numerous workforces can preserve Colorado corporations aggressive. In the meantime, extra conservative states try to attract companies with tax breaks.
What they’re saying: “LGBTQ-friendly environments are business-friendly environments,” Todd Sears, a former funding banker who based Out Management, informed Axios Markets’ Emily Peck.
Zoom in: Colorado acquired excellent 5-point scores for its authorized and nondiscrimination protections, in addition to most of its youth and household help assets, plus political and spiritual attitudes.
- The state scored 3 out 5 in “state worker protection,” as a result of missing transgender-specific care in insurance policy for presidency staff, in addition to in “HIV criminalization,” as a result of state legal guidelines punishing these with the situation.
- Colorado additionally received a 3 out of 5 in “work security,” based mostly on incidences of verbal harassment, sexual assault and different mistreatment.
- The identical scores got here for Colorado’s “unemployment differential” and “meals insecurity differential” — classes which measure discrepancies in poverty charges between those that determine as LGBTQ+ and people who do not.
The massive image: Out Management’s report reveals widening gaps between one of the best and worst states, with the much less pleasant locations passing extra anti-LGBTQ+ legal guidelines whereas extra pleasant states transfer in the wrong way.
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Denver, CO
Over 400 flights delayed Tuesday amid high winds at Denver International Airport
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More than 400 flights were delayed Tuesday afternoon at Denver International Airport as high winds blew across the area, according to flight tracking data from FlightAware.
There were 406 flights delayed and five canceled as of 5:20 p.m. as wind gusts at the airport hit 43 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., 70 flights were delayed and one was canceled, according to live flight tracking by FlightAware’s Misery Map.
United, Alaska Airlines, Southwest, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Key Lime Air, SkyWest, WestJet, American Airlines and Air Canada all had delayed or canceled flights.
Southwest had nearly half of the delayed flights, with 168 delays and one cancellation. United delayed 128 flights, according to FlightAware.
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Did you know: Almost $1 million in coins pass through the Denver Mint every day
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DENVER (KDVR) – From the outside, the Denver Mint may be just another two-story government office across from Civic Center Park. But inside the Cherokee Street building, staff and machinery are busy pressing metal coils into millions of coins per day.
According to the Mint, it’s one of two facilities responsible for making circulating coins in the United States – making it a huge part of the nation’s coin flow.
According to Tom Fesing with the Denver Mint, the facility produces roughly 4.5 million coins every 24 hours. Fesing estimates that about $750,000 to $1 million has gone through the facility each day this year.
That said, the Mint can’t exactly predict how much is going to be produced throughout the year as the number of coins depends on the orders the Mint receives monthly from the central bank, the Federal Reserve System, Fesing said.
Despite the millions of dollars in coins passing through, Fesing said the coin with the lowest value, the penny, has historically had the most production.
Those numbers depend on how many coins are needed for cash transactions in the economy, according to Fesing.
“When someone gets back a cent in change, what happens to them? They usually end up in piggy banks, or in a jar, and they’re not introduced into circulation as fast as, let’s say, a quarter or a dime,” Fesing said.
While the Mint can’t predict the numbers for the end of this year, it has produced almost 1.3 billion coins this year, with almost 800 million being pennies. In 2023, the Mint produced around 5.65 billion coins for the entire year.
Denver, CO
US ambassador visits conflict-ridden Mexican state to expedite avocado inspections
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MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — United States Ambassador Ken Salazar praised Mexico’s effort protect American agricultural inspectors in the conflict-ridden state of Michoacan on Monday, a week after the U.S. suspended avocado and mango inspections following an attack on inspectors.
Salazar traveled to the state, plagued by violence linked to organized crime, to meet with state and federal officials.
Earlier this month, two employees of the U.S. Agriculture Department were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in Mexico’s biggest avocado-producing state, prompting the U.S. government to suspend inspections.
The diplomat told the press that last Friday that Michoacan authorities had agreed to a security plan to restart avocado exports. “We are going to continue working on this,” he added.
The U.S. said that inspections in Michoacan would resume gradually.
Mexico played down the attacks, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to work with the United States to guarantee the safety of inspectors.
Many avocado growers in Michoacan say drug gangs threaten them or their family members with kidnapping or death unless they pay protection money, sometimes amounting to thousands of dollars per acre.
There have also been reports of criminal groups trying to sneak avocados grown in other states that are not approved for export through U.S. inspections.
In February 2022, the U.S. government suspended inspections of Mexican avocados for about a week after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Michoacan received a threatening message.
Later that year, Jalisco became the second Mexican state authorized to export avocados to the U.S.
The latest pause won’t stop Michoacan avocados that are already in transit from reaching the U.S.
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