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  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

    BLS alternative measures of labor underutilization (U-4 to U-6)

    Monthly U.S. alternative measures of labor underutilization from the BLS Current Population Survey (CPS), Table A-15: U-4 (unemployed plus discouraged workers), U-5 (plus all other persons marginally attached to the labor force), and U-6 (plus total employed part time for economic reasons). Rates in percent, seasonally adjusted. U-3 (the official unemployment rate) is published in bls_unemployment. October 2025 is unavailable upstream (2025 lapse in appropriations) and stays null.

    • unemployment
    • underemployment
    • labor
    • labor-market
    rows
    708
    Quality
    100
    Updated
    Sep 28, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    Commercial use OK
  • US Labor-Market Slack Signals (derived)

    US labor-market slack signals (duration & underemployment)

    Monthly US labor-market slack signals from BLS duration and underemployment series (FRED UEMPMEAN 1948 ->, U6RATE 1994 ->): 3-month momentum, year-on-year change, 30-month change volatility, 3-sigma anomaly flags, naive-drift forecasts, a long-duration (>=27 weeks) flag, an elevated-underemployment (U-6 >= 10%) flag, and 5-year z-scores for both. The slack lens on US labor — complementing us-labor-market-signals (headline levels) and sahm-labor-recession-signals (recession trigger) by watching unemployment duration and underemployment, where labor-market pain concentrates. All rows normalized to country_code USA. Raw series: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Current Population Survey) via FRED.

    • unemployment
    • underemployment
    • labor-market
    • duration
    rows
    1,334
    Quality
    96
    Updated
    Sep 22, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    Commercial use OK

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