Colorado employers ramped up their hiring in August, adding 36,900 non-farm jobs and helping push the unemployment rate down to 6.7% from 7.4% in July, according to an update Friday from the Colorado Department of Labor and  Unemployment. “The state has regained 178,500 of the 342,300 payroll jobs lost in March and April,” said Ryan Gedney, a senior labor economist with the state, during a press call Friday morning.

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