Unemployment
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The share of the labor force without work; a core gauge of economic health.
Coverage of Unemployment is accelerating : 69 signals on the latest tracked day, up 245% from its three-week baseline of 20, across 38 coverage verticals (up from 27 a week ago).
If Unemployment matters to your work, the information environment around it is moving faster than its own baseline — worth a daily look while the build lasts.
What’s changed
7 of the last 7 tracked days ran above the three-week baseline — a sustained move, not a one-day spike.
- Jobless rate falls but small firms cut back hiring · BBC News · 2026-10-20
- The French are rioting as inflation hits 3.4% while wage growth and GDP remain stagnant. It’s higher in Trump’s America · Fortune · 2026-10-19
- Reserve Bank assistant governor Christopher Kent suggests unemployment may be rising faster than expected · The Nightly · 2026-10-19
- PM says youth unemployment is a 'catastrophe and a moral failure' · BBC News · 2026-10-19
- Black Unemployment Hints at a Job Market in Worse Shape Than It Seems · NYT · 2026-10-19
- Eyes on RBA for rate call hints as jobless numbers rise · Yahoo Finance Australia · 2026-10-18
What the reporting says
It shows up alongside Interest Rates (459), Inflation (582), Federal Reserve (357), Housing (256), AI (467), GDP (325), Oil (320), Treasury (307).
Two steps out: CPI (through Inflation, 582 shared stories on the weaker link); Iran (through Inflation, 582 shared stories on the weaker link); Middle East (through Inflation, 582 shared stories on the weaker link); Oil Prices (through Inflation, 582 shared stories on the weaker link).
Tracked since Mar 6, with coverage on 54 separate days — concentrated in Macro Economics and Australia.