Chasing Progress
- Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post
About the Project
Chasing Progress is an ongoing COLab-led multi-newsroom project examining socio-economic and health equity among Black and Latino Coloradans over the last decade. The project traces back to I-News/RMPBS’ Losing Ground, which in 2013 tracked equity gaps in poverty levels, homeownership rates, educational attainment and median family income among Black, Latino and white Coloradans from 1960-2010. The name, “Losing Ground,” announced its findings.
Chasing Progress examines the decade from 2010-2020, a period that saw a historically long economic expansion sandwiched by the upheavals of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ongoing series looks not only at what happened, but why and how and what comes next.
The Original Series
Chasing Progress
COLab - Jun 2, 2022Maria Bocanegra Tejeda awakens as the rising sun lights her room. Her room. In the house her family owns. That fact is still capable of surprising her, so far removed…
Buscando Avances
COLab - Jun 2, 2022Maria Bocanegra Tejeda se despierta mientras el sol alumbra su habitación. Su habitación. En la casa que le pertenece a su familia. Ese hecho todavía es capaz de sorprenderla, tan…
Driving a Decade of Progress, Hispanic Students Made Huge Gains in High School Graduation
Chalkbeat Colorado - Jun 2, 2022When Rosa Beltran was going through high school in the late ’90s in a small town in southern Colorado, she never expected to graduate. “My parents were very concerned about…
Éxito y sacrificio: una década de grandes avances en las tasas de graduación de estudiantes hispanos en Colorado
Chalkbeat Colorado - Jun 2, 2022Cuando Rosa Beltran estaba en high school a finales de los años 1990 en un pequeño poblado en el sur de Colorado, nunca pensó que se graduaría. “Mis padres estaban muy preocupados…
Homeownership Gap Between White and Latino Coloradans Narrows. But for Black Coloradans, It’s Widened.
The Colorado Sun - Jun 9, 2022After 50 years, homeownership gap between white and Latino Coloradans narrows. But for Black Coloradans, it’s widened. The U.S. is short about 3.8 million housing units relative to demand, making…
Después de 50 años, la brecha entre los coloradenses blancos e hispanos dueños de su vivienda disminuye. Pero para los coloradenses negros, está aumentando.
The Colorado Sun - Jun 9, 2022Estados Unidos tiene una escasez de 3.8 millones de unidades de vivienda en relación con la demanda. Esto resulta en uno de los mercados de bienes raíces más difíciles en…
Grassroots Groups Lead Way on Closing Colorado’s Infant Mortality Gap
Kaiser Health News - Jun 10, 2022AURORA, Colo. — As Britney Taylor toured the Mama Bird Maternity Wellness Spa during its grand opening this spring, she reflected on the birth of her first child: a confusing…
Grupos locales lideran esfuerzos para cerrar la brecha de mortalidad infantil en Colorado
Kaiser Health News - Jun 10, 2022AURORA, Colorado. — Mientras Britney Taylor recorría Mama Bird Maternity Wellness Spa durante su inauguración esta primavera, pensó en el nacimiento de su primer hijo: una experiencia confusa y solitaria…
Pesa el legado de Trump, mientras Colorado busca zanjar la brecha del seguro de salud hispano
Kaiser Health News - Jun 23, 2022Armando Peniche Rosales tiene un dedo del pie torcido, que durante años ha pronosticado el clima y se vuelve sensible cuando se avecina lluvia o frío. “Nunca se curó bien”,…
Trump’s Legacy Looms Large as Colorado Aims to Close the Hispanic Insurance Gap
Kaiser Health News - Jun 23, 2022Armando Peniche Rosales has a crooked toe that for years has predicted the weather, growing sensitive when rain or cold is coming. “It never healed right,” said Peniche Rosales, who…
The Collaboration
We are grateful to our partner newsrooms, including The Colorado Sun, Chalkbeat, Kaiser Health News, The Denver Post, Boulder Reporting Lab, The Denver VOICE, KGNU, and The Sentinel.
We are also grateful to the community members of the Black and Latinx Voices initiatives. They have helped guide Chasing Progress with their feedback, brainstorming and own story ideas.
Reflections
“A Dream Unrealized”
Tina Griego - Jun 3, 2022On Thursday, we launched "Chasing Progress," our latest reporting collaboration with partner newsrooms across the state. Chasing Progress examines the social, economic and health equity of Black and Latino Coloradans…
This project was made possible through unprecedented collaboration between dozens of newsrooms and journalists across the state, who are active partners in the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab.
To support the statewide effort, donate to the Colorado News Collaborative.