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Aug. 29, 2025: We visit a support group for laid-off aid workers

By Ryan Warner
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FEDERAL LAYOFFS SUPPORT GROUP
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Causal Design CEO and Chief Economist Keith Ives carries his son past murals at the Posner Center in Denver, where he attends a support group for workers who lost their jobs as part of the Trump Administrations layoffs. Ives’s company, which specializes in “making evidence-based programming affordable for NGOs, practical to field workers, and digestible to policymakers and the general public,” was dealt a “death knell” by Trump’s closure of USAID.

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Aug. 29, 2025: We visit a support group for laid-off aid workers

The Tuesday Group formed in Denver when the Trump Administration shut down USAID. Experts in international development are in need of aid themselves-- emotionally and in the job search. Colorado Matters visits this support group at the Posner Center for International Development, which is a nerve center for Coloradans in foreign aid. Then, a Buc-ee's-sized fight in Palmer Lake. And is the Colorado River a person?

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