World Dashboard
Labor market state of the union · 2020-Q1 -> 2026-Q1 · BLS + FRED + Indeed Hiring Lab + Atlanta Fed
Macro · this quarter
labour-market health gauges + capital context
Employment
158.6M
Unemp.
4.3%
LFPR
62.0%
Prime EPOP
80.7%
U-6
8.0%
Job openings
6.88M
S&P 500
6,529
10Y yield
4.30%
Fed funds
3.6%
CPI YoY
2.7%
GDP $B
31,856
Sentiment
55.4
Labor-market tightness · JOLTS rates
6.88M openings vs 7.24M unemployed
Beveridge V/U
0.95
balanced
Job openings rate
4.3%
Quits rate
1.9%
workers cautious
Hires rate
3.3%
Layoffs rate
1.1%
Unemployment lvl
7.24M
Total openings
6.88M
Bev ratio (rates)
0.99
Forward-looking · where's hiring going
recession-risk + composite gauges (no PMI · ISM withdrew)
OECD CLI
100.8
above trend
OECD biz conf
5.1
Phila coincident
147.8
Sentiment
55.4
10Y-2Y
0.51pp
normal
10Y-3M (Fed-watched)
0.60pp
normal
Fin stress
-0.52
below avg
Initial claims
212k/wk
Metro snapshot · tightest → loosest
BLS LAUS unemployment + Indeed postings idx (baseline 100 = Feb 2020)
Raleigh
0.84M employed
3.4%
—
Atlanta
3.21M employed
3.6%
—
Austin
1.50M employed
3.7%
—
Miami
3.17M employed
3.8%
—
Dallas
4.36M employed
4.2%
—
Denver
1.67M employed
4.3%
—
Phoenix
2.59M employed
4.3%
—
San Francisco Bay Area
2.39M employed
4.3%
—
Washington DC
3.29M employed
4.3%
—
Boston
2.68M employed
4.7%
—
Minneapolis
1.97M employed
4.8%
—
NYC
9.85M employed
5.0%
—
Los Angeles
6.37M employed
5.2%
—
Chicago
4.74M employed
5.3%
—
Seattle
2.21M employed
5.8%
—
AI exposure × headcount
Anthropic AEI observed_exposure × BLS OEWS May-2023 employment (152M covered)
mean ≥ 0.10
60.7M
40.0% of US
mean ≥ 0.15
48.4M
31.9% of US
mean ≥ 0.20
19.8M
13.0% of US
mean ≥ 0.25
5.2M
3.4% of US
mean ≥ 0.30
5.2M
3.4% of US
Detailed-SOC weighted: 3.8M workers in detailed SOCs whose individual AEI exposure ≥ 50% — about 2.5% of covered.
Top 8 major groups by mean AEI exposure
Unemployment by demographic
headline: 4.3%
race
White
3.7%
Black
7.4%
Hispanic
5.0%
Asian
4.2%
education
< HS (25+)
5.6%
HS grad (25+)
4.7%
Some coll. (25+)
3.6%
BA+ (25+)
2.9%
age
16-19
14.1%
20-24
6.9%
55+
3.3%
Wage growth · YoY
Atl Fed · Overall (3mo)
3.7%
Atl Fed · Overall (12mo)
4.0%
Atl Fed · Switchers
4.4%
Atl Fed · Stayers
3.9%
gap: 0.5pp
By sector (BLS-derived)
Indeed postings · this quarter
baseline = 100 (Feb 2020) · US idx: 103.9
Top sectors
Top metros
Top states
Top events · this quarter
2140 total
- AI launchesKimi K2 · Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, open-weight frontier MoE
- AI launchesHunter Alpha · Anonymous AI model Hunter Alpha surfaces on OpenRouter with 1 trillion parameters
- AI launchesGemini 3.1 Pro · Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with 2x jump in reasoning capabilities
- AI launchesGLM-5 · Chinese AI labs release GLM-5 with 745 billion parameters
- AI launchesGLM-5 · Zhipu AI releases GLM-5, first frontier model trained on Huawei Ascend silicon
- AI launchesDeepSeek V3.2 · DeepSeek releases V3.2 with 10x context window expansion
- AI launchesClaude Sonnet 4.6 · Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6 with near-Opus performance
- M&AxAI · SpaceX acquires xAI for $250B
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