Economy & Economic Development  January 10, 2025

2025: The year of the worker shortage?

Rich Wobbekind, associate dean for business and government relations and senior economist at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, delivers the keynote address in BizWest’s Northern Colorado Economic Forecast Friday Jan. 10, to a packed ballroom at Aims Community College. Bruce Dennis / BizWest
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If you’ve had trouble hiring new employees in the last few years, your luck may not change in 2025. Slowing population growth is the chief culprit, economists say, even though Northern Colorado’s economy is in all other respects humming happily along.

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Sharon Dunn is an award-winning journalist covering business, banking, real estate, energy, local government and crime in Northern Colorado since 1994. She began her journalism career in Alaska after graduating Metropolitan State College in Denver in 1992. She found her way back to Colorado, where she worked at the Greeley Tribune for 25 years. She has a master's degree in communications management from the University of Denver. She is married and has one grown daughter — and a beloved English pointer at her side while she writes. When not writing, you may find her enjoying embroidery and crochet projects, watching football, or kayaking and birdwatching on a high-mountain lake.
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