Colorado Sun: What’s Working: Colorado has some of the lowest high gas prices in the U.S.

4:51 AM MDT on May 21, 2022

It was a brutal week for the U.S. economy, especially for those with money to invest (stop checking your stocks already and distract yourself with this Dirty Dancing/Muppets Show mashup instead).

In Colorado, the economic news seemed a little more upbeat.

The state’s unemployment rate fell to 3.6% in April, the lowest since before the pandemic.

More Coloradans are back to work, with 15,400 returning to jobs in April. 

Average hourly earnings grew 10% in the past year to $34.34 while the work week shrunk 12 minutes from last year to 33.3 hours.

This and other Colorado job data was released Friday, but more on that below.

It’s rising gasoline prices that everyone is talking about.