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Vol. I, No. 7 Morning Edition

The Fed Gazette

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Live Federal Reserve rates, FOMC decisions, speeches, and Treasury data, with every figure copied from the agency that published it.

Report

Data Prints

Jobs and Prices: The Latest Prints, With Their Sources

Published · Updated

Nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate, consumer prices, and the PCE price index, each as the agency published it, with the period it covers and how it compares with the print before it.

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This report prints four monthly series: total nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate, the consumer price index, and the PCE price index. Each is copied from the agency that publishes it and relayed by GOVSPENDING.ORG, with the period the agency gave.

A price index is a level, not a rate of inflation. This paper says only whether the latest print is higher than, lower than, or the same as the one before it, and it prints both. It computes no change and makes no forecast.

The latest total nonfarm payrolls print is 159,044 thousand for September 2026, higher than the print before it, 159,015 thousand for August 2026. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Employment Situation), via GOVSPENDING.ORG.

The latest unemployment rate print is 4.20% for September 2026, higher than the print before it, 4.10% for August 2026. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Employment Situation), via GOVSPENDING.ORG.

The latest consumer price index for all items print is 334.131 for August 2026, higher than the print before it, 332.813 for July 2026. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Consumer Price Index), via GOVSPENDING.ORG.

The latest PCE price index print is 131.579 for August 2026, higher than the print before it, 131.172 for July 2026. Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (Personal Income and Outlays), via GOVSPENDING.ORG.

Each print is shown as the agency published it, relayed by GOVSPENDING.ORG, and each period is the one the agency gave. Higher, lower, and the same compare the two stored prints printed beside them. An index is an index: this paper does not turn it into an inflation rate, and it computes no change. Retrieved Oct 6, 2026, 4:36 PM PT.