Showing periods 1–65 of 65 in this date range. Each chart page contains at most 180 original periods; values are not downsampled. All retained snapshot-selected periods are available.
Uses the data available in this saved assessment; later revisions may change historical values. This reconstructed chart does not show what was known on each historical date. Missing source periods break the line; unavailable metric values are omitted. Quality is evaluated at the assessment date.
Exact values · final 12 periods in this chart window
Exact plotted metric readings
Economic period
Value
Unit
Quality
01 Aug 2026
200,000
claims
Valid
08 Aug 2026
212,000
claims
Valid
15 Aug 2026
207,000
claims
Valid
22 Aug 2026
204,000
claims
Valid
29 Aug 2026
207,000
claims
Valid
05 Sep 2026
207,000
claims
Valid
12 Sep 2026
198,000
claims
Valid
19 Sep 2026
198,000
claims
Valid
26 Sep 2026
199,000
claims
Valid
03 Oct 2026
198,000
claims
Valid
10 Oct 2026
200,000
claims
Valid
17 Oct 2026
194,000
claims
Valid
Method, sources and timing
Economic period & freshness
Calculation uses the latest completed observation available at evaluation time, with its actual economic period and original availability. An older period contributes to assessment only within the configured source-age limit. Newly observed missing or invalid evidence is not replaced with an earlier value. Source status uses economic-age thresholds, not a release calendar; no future release time is inferred.
Source timing diagnostics
Input
Latest source period
Observation age
Available to ECO I
Source status
Initial unemployment claims
17 Oct 2026
10 days
22 Oct 2026 · 20:25 UTC
Current
THE PUBLISHED TRANSFORMOutput the latest original published value for its native economic period.
Administrative unemployment-insurance claims cover eligible insured workers, not all unemployment. The official weekly release PDF publishes a rolling history. Initial claims and continuing claims retain their distinct latest Saturday-ending economic weeks. Published table values in thousands are converted exactly to counts; continuing claims count benefit weeks, not unique people. Initial and continuing claims provide one labor channel; four-week and annual changes remain descriptive context, not calibrated recession alarms. Latest and reviewed August 6, 2026 archival release artifacts are retained separately. Previously unretrieved history is available only from first retrieval, without inventing original-release vintages or splicing the historical XML feed.
Administrative unemployment-insurance claims cover eligible insured workers, not all unemployment.
Published official-source context; the complete assessment and these supplementary growth/capacity interpretations are not established as calibrated crisis forecasts.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor. Original release PDF, including additional tables. National seasonally adjusted counts are converted from thousands to counts exactly. File hashes identify the exact retrieved bytes; these are not historical point-in-time vintages.
Chart source observations · 65 periods in this window
Showing periods 1–65 of 65 in this date range. Each chart page contains at most 180 original periods; values are not downsampled. All retained snapshot-selected periods are available.
Uses snapshot-selected vintages. The final eight exact values in this window are tabulated above. The pinned JSON query provides all matching observations and provenance; follow its cursor for further pages.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov. Data access dates are supplied as retrieved_at in canonical observations. Latest retained BLS access: 03 Oct 2026 · 00:33 UTC. BLS source terms
Source: BIS debt service, credit and credit-gap statistics; debt service is model-based. ECO I's calculations and interpretation are its own; BIS does not endorse them. BIS statistical-use terms