Our work

Here are some highlights of the issues we work on:

• Access to the internet. Colorado Fair Share supported Colorado's U.S. Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper in their efforts to pass the The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.  Senator Bennet was a longtime champion of affordable, high-speed broadband for every Coloradan. The BIL’s BEAD program–the single largest broadband investment in American history helps deploy affordable, high-speed networks and support local initiatives to promote broadband affordability, adoption, and inclusion.  In 2023,  Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper welcomed the announcement of funding to connect over 41,000 households and small businesses in Pueblo to high-speed internet.

• Protecting Americans from unfair surprise medical bills. Before 2022, one in fiveAmericans who visited an emergency room or had surgery got stuck with a surprise medical bill — even if they made sure to go to a hospital in their insurance network. We helped put an end to one million surprise bills every month when Fair Share joined with a coalition of public interest and health organizations to win passage of the federal No Surprises Act. Now, it's time to extend those protections beyond the hospital to ground ambulances. About 50% of people who need emergency transport ride in an ambulance that is not part of their insurance plan's network —and that means those patients could receive an ambulance surprise bill of hundreds or thousands of dollars. We need state and federal action to stop ambulances from sending these costly surprise bills.
  

• We want to get big money out of politics. Our democracy should give each of us a voice — and the government should look out for all of us. But unlimited campaign spending allows corporations and the richest Americans to rig the system in their own favor and against the average voter. That's why, in 2012, Colorado Fair Share helped qualify and then win Amendment 65, which put Colorado on record against big money in politics and the Citizens United decision, and directed our Congressional representatives to back action. It passed by a landslide with 74% of the vote. Corporations aren't people, and they shouldn’t get to buy our democracy.