Region’s jobless rate continues to decline below 3%

DENVER — The unemployment rates in Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties declined again in April compared with March, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s monthly jobs report released Friday. All four counties in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado also had posted lower jobless rates in March than in February.

Boulder County’s jobless rate dipped to 2.3 percent in April from 2.5 percent in March, but was slightly higher than the 2.2 percent it recorded in April a year ago. According to the survey, 187,829 people in the county had jobs while 4,382…