Week's Colorado unemployment claims already hit 8 times Great Recession's peak

Colorado received 61,583 claims for unemployment benefits last week — a number that was three times greater than the week before and eight times higher than at any point during the Great Recession, and that includes a disproportionate share of leisure and hospitality workers. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment officials revealed the numbers Thursday, putting a more definitive face to the waves of layoffs that have been rolling across industries that have been limited in operations or…