"Enough is enough. We can’t afford to wait any longer," said Sen. Faith Winter.

Dawna Numbers is one in 350,000. A single person in the wave of unemployment that has upended people's lives across the state. CPR followed her on April 16th, as part of our project chronicling "a day in the life" of Coloradans during the pandemic.

It will take several more weeks to determine whether unemployment claims have peaked, according to state officials.

The governor says he will be renewing and "strengthening" his March 20 executive order that said state agencies should work with landlords to identify “any lawful measure” to avoid evictions.

COVID Diaries Colorado: Leaving It All Behind

"Employers are in a Catch-22, and employees are going to be in a Catch-22."

Entire sectors of the economy are on hold during the pandemic. And for those out of work and looking uncertainly to the future, "This isn’t a blizzard. It’s a winter."

Colorado has 370,000 gig workers, independent contractors and self-employed people who are allowed to collect unemployment for the first time under a new federal law. But that proved harder than expected.

Demonstrators in automobiles, and possibly on foot, will converge on downtown Denver Sunday to demand Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ lift restrictions on businesses and public life. It's one more sign that opposition may be growing against the unprecedented measures taken to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

Remember the start of the legislative session, when all talk was about paid family leave, the public option, and how Jared Polis might use his power as governor in the months ahead? Yeah, it feels like a lifetime ago to us too.

The CARES Act is "very close" to implementation in Colorado.

The field facilities are meant to host thousands of temporary hospital beds and absorb overflow COVID-19 patients if the hospitals reach capacity.

The COVID-19 crisis has lent a new sense of urgency to both those issues — while also making it less likely that lawmakers will act on them before the November elections.

For example, while Latino people make up about 22 percent of the state’s population, they are about 28 percent of its COVID-19 cases.

He expects the facility to open with “several hundred beds” by April 18.

What happens to the right to a speedy trial when the court system is shut down during a pandemic? Can testing every last person in a small Western Colorado county yield new insights into the spread of coronavirus? What will life in Colorado look like the day after the "stay home" order lifts? And how much, really, will lawmakers actually try to push through once they're allowed back in the state capitol? Hosts Bente Birkeland and Andrew Kenney tackle those questions and more with CPR's Justice reporter, Allison Sherry.