Round-Up: Colorado's Unemployment Rate Rises, and Rep. Salazar Takes on Medicare Drug Prices

By On March 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Andrea Chalfin, AP, Business/Labor, Capitol News Connection, Health, KRCC News, Round-Up

Colorado’s unemployment rate is up one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.4 percent, while the Gazette is reporting unemployment in the Colorado Springs area rose .4 percentage points in January…and, Colorado Democrat John Salazar wants to give the federal government more power to negotiate Medicare drug prices.

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