Economic Update

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Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Federal Reserve (FRED/ALFRED), Energy Information Administration, Census Bureau, and the University of Michigan. Proprietary series (ADP, University of Michigan, National Association of Realtors) are shown as headline figures only.

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Unemployment rate

Share of the labor force without a job who are available to work and searched in the past four weeks. People who stopped looking aren't counted as unemployed; they drop out of the labor force, which can make this rate look better than conditions are.

4.2%

Sep 2026

+0.1 ppvs Aug−0.2 ppvs a year agoNo new data since last update

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics