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Washington payroll jobs from the state's benchmarked series and the federal estimate, the September 2026 change by industry, state personal income against Seattle-area prices, and the state's November 2026 forecasts. Built to check claims that Washington job growth turned negative in 2026 and that prices are rising faster than incomes.
New state general-fund revenue from the tax bills of nine Washington legislative sessions (1981 through 2025), as estimated when enacted, shown in nominal dollars, in 2025 dollars, and as a share of general-fund revenue for the same two-year budget period.
Washington public school money per student from 2014-15 to 2024-25, in dollars and adjusted for inflation three ways; statewide Smarter Balanced test results by achievement level for 2019 and 2022-2026; and Washington's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) averages and ranks for 2013-2024. Built to check claims in a June 2025 dispute between Superintendent Chris Reykdal and the Washington Policy Center.
Premium rates for Washington's Paid Family and Medical Leave program from 2019 to 2027, what the 2027 rate costs workers at different wages, the state actuary's projection of premiums against costs at the 1.2% legal maximum through 2029, revenue and expenses since benefits began, and the trends that drove costs up.
Every fiscal year 2025 Climate Commitment Act (CCA) project that Washington agencies expected to cut greenhouse gases, from the Department of Ecology’s revised March 2026 investment report, with its spending, projected lifetime cut and cost per ton, plus totals before and after the state corrected the report.
Washington's official greenhouse gas totals for 1990-2022, its statutory limits, a straight-line path to the 2030 limit with alternatives, the yearly cut still needed, and the electricity data behind the small 2022 drop.
Share of participants arrested before and after entering Seattle's Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program or a system-as-usual control group, the odds estimates the University of Washington evaluators reported, how those odds translate into the chance of arrest, and the LEAD set-asides Congress enacted from 2018 to 2026. Includes the attributed statements on both sides of the 2026 dispute.
CDC drug overdose deaths and death rates for all 50 states in 2014 and 2024, on three bases: age-adjusted final rates, crude final rates, and crude rates from 2024 provisional counts. Includes each state's yearly age-adjusted rate for 2014-2024, Washington's and the U.S. yearly rates, and Washington deaths involving synthetic opioids (mainly fentanyl), 2019-2024.
General fund spending, enrollment by three measures, spending per student before and after inflation, where the increase went, and revenue minus spending for Seattle Public Schools, with the Washington statewide total for comparison.
IRS Statistics of Income state-to-state migration data for Washington and six comparison states (Oregon, California, Idaho, Texas, Florida, Arizona): tax returns, people and adjusted gross income (AGI) of households that moved in and out, average AGI per return and per person, net moves of $200,000-plus filers, all-state rankings, Washington's partner states and an age check.
The U.S. average price of regular gasoline just before each national Election Day from 1976 to 2026, in dollars of the day, in September 2026 dollars, and in minutes of a typical worker's pay. A second table compares state prices and state gasoline taxes and fees for the U.S. average and nine states in October 2026.
Census ACS 1-year median household income for Seattle city and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area, with margins of error, converted to 2025 dollars using the BLS Seattle-area and U.S. city-average CPI-U annual averages.
Every statement FactHub coded as departing from the documentary record in The Seattle Times' news coverage of Washington Initiative 638 and trans athletes, January 2025 to October 30, 2026, with which side of the I-638 debate each one favored. 49 coded items from 22 stories: 29 departures in the paper's own voice, 7 quotes the paper left unchecked, 10 errors that favored neither side and 3 items reviewed and excluded.
Comparable indicators of government spending and results for California and a fixed peer group (Texas, Florida, New York, the U.S. average), with Mississippi as a schools case study: state spending and taxes per resident, homelessness, housing permits, school spending and test scores, Medicaid spending and coverage, and high-speed rail costs.
LAHSA point-in-time homeless counts for all of Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles, 2015-2026, with documented city homelessness budgets and county Homeless Initiative spending plans.
A curated register of 13 audit findings and criminal cases involving Los Angeles homelessness funds and other Los Angeles-area public money, 2022-2026: seven oversight findings of waste or mismanagement, two fraud convictions and four pending homelessness fraud cases.
IT power capacity of the five largest operating AI data centers tracked by Epoch AI as of mid-2026, with FactHub's conversion to annual electricity and the number of average U.S. homes using the same amount.
Every story in our sample of Washington news and opinion coverage of Initiative IL26-638 (girls' interscholastic sports), coded with one codebook: advocates quoted per side, first and last word, rebuttals, campaign claims repeated with or without context, twelve facts that answer one side's arguments, loaded terms and factual errors in the outlet's own voice. Includes derived tables of fact rates, sourcing balance and claim checks by outlet group.
Contributions and spending reported to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission by the two main committees on Initiative IL26-638: Let's Go Washington (Sponsored by Brian Heywood), the Yes committee, which also backs IL26-001 and IP26-645, and No Hate in WA State, the No committee, which also opposes IL26-001. Covers the 2025 and 2026 election years through October 23, 2026: donors by type and location, how concentrated each side's money is, and how much of each committee's spending its own reports tie to I-638. Also lists every other committee registered on I-638.
Prices for each way Washington Initiative IL26-638 lets a provider verify a student's sex: a record or exam at a routine checkup, a serum testosterone test (CPT 84403), or a chromosome test (karyotype, CPT 88230/88262/88291; SRY FISH components 88271/88275). Each price is labeled by what it is: what a family pays, what a payer pays, what labs bill, a consumer cash price, or a figure reported in the press.
NFHS participation counts by state and sex for nine school years, Census population aged 14-17 by sex, and the dates of the 27 state laws limiting girls' school teams to female students, with difference-in-differences comparisons of states with and without such laws.
An anonymized copy of the HeCheated.org Washington K-12 table, the source of the Yes on IL26-638 claim of "269 placements ... 74 firsts and 156 top-three finishes", with each entry classified by meet type, level, event type and finish, plus FactHub's checks of a sample against official and independent results. Athletes are coded by letter; no names, schools, meet names or race classifications are included.
Every U.S. state law or regulation (28 as of October 2026) that limits girls' school sports to students of female sex, coded from its official text for coverage (grades, college, private schools), how sex is determined or proved, and enforcement (private lawsuits, penalties on schools), beside Washington Initiative IL26-638 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Every factual claim and prediction in the official arguments for and against Washington Initiative IL26-638 in the 2026 state voters' pamphlet, quoted verbatim with its heading. FactHub fact checks cite these statements so each rating rests on the campaign's exact words.
