get_unemployment
ActiveTool of econdata
Get the US civilian unemployment rate over time (Bureau of Labor Statistics) — the percentage of the labor force currently unemployed. Use this for "unemployment rate" / "jobless rate" queries. Returns monthly values by year and month.
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"examples": [
{
"end_year": "2024",
"start_year": "2019"
}
],
"required": [],
"properties": {
"_apiKey": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional BLS registration key (free, raises the daily cap from ~25 to 500). The gateway supplies a platform key; pass your own only to override."
},
"end_year": {
"type": "string",
"description": "End year as 4-digit string (e.g. \"2024\"). Optional."
},
"start_year": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Start year as 4-digit string (e.g. \"2020\"). Optional."
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.70.
Parent server
econdata
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-econdata
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