The country's jobs figure reached August

The country's jobs figure reached August

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

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

Colorado's newest rate on this site is for May 2026. It is 3.9%, and the state marks it preliminary. The state had already published its rates for June and July, and this site did not have them yet.

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.

In May 2026, Colorado was 3.9% and the country was 4.3%.

Correction, 24 September 2026: this section first said the state had not published its rates for June, July or August. It had published June and July. The corrections log has the details.

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.

Every recorded vote since 2016 is at Bills and Laws.

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Until 4 September the dashboard used the new count while Follow Your Dollar and the methodology page still used the withdrawn one.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 our own estimate.

• FACT Unemployment rate, United States (seasonally adjusted) · Aug 2026 and May 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey — unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, United States (LNS14000000), public API v2 Back to the sentence
• FACT Unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) · May 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics — unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, Colorado (LASST080000000000003), public API Back to the sentence