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U.S. Unemployment Rate
Share of the U.S. labor force without a job and looking for one, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
U-6 adds people working part time who want full-time work and people who have stopped looking.
The headline jobless rate alongside the broader underemployment measure. The gap between them widens when slack hides in part-time work and discouraged workers.
What this chart reads
- Unemployment Rateas “Unemployment rate (U-3)”latest 2026-09-01
- U-6 Underemployment Rateas “Underemployment (U-6)”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
Unemployment Rate. Source: The series is published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as FRED series UNRATE, drawn from the Current Population Survey. Palanor pulls this series from the FRED API nightly.
U-6 Underemployment Rate. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (U6RATE). Public.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.