Colorado economic outlook: All sectors but one to grow in 2016

BOULDER – Colorado’s oil and natural gas industry is expected to keep shedding jobs in 2016, perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000. But even with such losses, the state’s overall unemployment has gotten so low that in-migration of new residents will be critical to Colorado filling all of the new jobs expected to come online, noted University of Colorado Boulder economist Richard Wobbekind said.

Wobbekind made the remarks in discussing the Colorado Business Economic Outlook for 2016, which was released Monday morning…
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