Weekly brief · 10 September 2026

The country's jobs figure reached August. Colorado's stopped at May.

Every figure here is read from a published document, or worked out from figures that are. Each one is checked again from this page every time it is built.

Two unemployment rates, three months apart

The federal government publishes an unemployment rate for the country every month. Colorado's Department of Labor and Employment republishes the federal estimate for this state.

The national figure for August reached this site this week. It is 4.1%, the same as July.

Colorado's most recent published month is May 2026. The rate for that month is 3.9%, and the state marks it preliminary.

So the two records are three months apart. June, July and August are not late by our reckoning. The state has not published them, and we read the state's own file again this morning before writing this.

We do not print the two rates side by side at different months. A spring reading against a summer one is not a comparison, and the difference it shows would be the calendar.

At the last month both publish, May 2026, Colorado was 3.9% and the country was 4.3%.

Both figures are on Ask WB, each with the document it came from.

The legislature recorded no votes this week

This section carries every vote the General Assembly recorded in the week the brief covers, with the tally the legislature printed for each one.

The General Assembly recorded no votes between 4 September 2026 and 10 September 2026. Its most recent recorded vote was on 13 May 2026.

A note on the checking

Every figure above comes from a published document. Each one is read again from this page every time the page is built, and compared against the dataset it came from.

A publisher that has not published a month yet is not making a mistake, and we do not log one. Things we get wrong go in the corrections log.

How each figure is produced, and what we refuse to produce, is on the methodology page.

Three corrections, and all three were fixes that stopped at one page

This site logged three corrections on 4 and 5 September. Each one has the same shape: a fix that reached one page and stopped there.

On 5 August we corrected the resident count the state budget is divided by, and wrote that every per-resident figure was now on one Census estimate. That was true of one page.

Until 4 September the dashboard used the new count while Follow Your Dollar and the methodology page still used the withdrawn one. One quantity, three answers, on three pages a reader can open side by side.

The two that lagged were wrong, and every county comparison built on them ran slightly high. That is the one of the three where a reader was given a bad figure.

The other two corrected no figure. A correction from 18 August had left four project rows re-graded rather than fixed, and the documents that state their figures had been in our own archive the whole time. A correction from 3 September fixed one paragraph about how a road fee is split, and four other places on the site kept the old split.

The part worth publishing is why nothing caught them. Our checks proved each figure against the record it came from. They never asked whether the other pages agreed.

All three are in the corrections log, with what changed and what did not.

Where these figures come from

Every figure above is one of two kinds, and this is which. FACT means a publisher printed the figure and we read it there. CALC means we worked it out from figures a publisher printed, and the arithmetic is on the methodology page. Nothing here is estimated. The vote counts are a third kind and are not listed below. Each one is the tally the legislature printed on its own vote page, which the table links.