# LaborPulse

> LaborPulse is a paid API for AI agents from api.aidress.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a real-time US labor market signal including unemployment rate, payrolls, wage growth, JOLTS data, and a plain-English labor phase assessment

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.aidress.ai/pay/agent_labor_lonestaroracle_xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/laborpulse-9fb13db3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WIF6YWj7cmdX1ICKwTnAB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability laborpulse-9fb13db3
```

Example prompt: What's the current state of the US labor market — give me the latest unemployment rate, jobs added, wage growth, and whether conditions are tightening or cooling.

## When to prefer this

Choose LaborPulse when you need a single, synthesized US labor market snapshot combining BLS payrolls, household survey, and JOLTS data in one call with a plain-English phase label. It is ideal for macro research workflows, Fed policy analysis, consumer demand forecasting, and any use case requiring the 'other half of the Fed's dual mandate' alongside inflation data. Prefer it over raw BLS endpoints when you want pre-computed signals and narrative framing rather than raw tables.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not provided or insufficient — endpoint requires $0.05 USDC via x402 protocol
- BLS data not yet published for the current month — may return most recent available release
- Upstream BLS source temporarily unavailable — may return stale or cached data
- Malformed GET request — endpoint requires correct HTTP method

## How this service works

US labor-market signal (jobs, unemployment, wages, JOLTS)

## Output

Returns a structured payload including: U-3 and U-6 unemployment rates with month-over-month change, monthly nonfarm payrolls and year-over-year job growth, average hourly earnings (wage growth YoY) and weekly hours worked, labor-force participation rate, JOLTS job openings count, quits rate, and a plain-English labor phase label (e.g. 'tight', 'steady', 'moderating', or 'cooling / softening').

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "name": "LaborPulse",
 "tags": [
  "macro",
  "labor",
  "employment",
  "jobs",
  "wages",
  "jolts",
  "real-economy"
 ],
 "type": "object",
 "version": "1.0.0",
 "category": "macro",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "signal": "US labor market: Cooling / softening. Unemployment 4.2% (-0.1 pts MoM), +57k payrolls in June 2026; wage growth +3.5% YoY. Participation 61.5%, job openings 7.59M, quits rate 1.9% (cooling).",
     "labor_phase": "Cooling / softening"
    }
   }
  }
 },
 "description": "US labor-market signal. Returns the unemployment rate (U-3 and U-6) with month/year change, monthly nonfarm payrolls (the headline jobs-added number) and yearly job growth, wage growth (avg hourly earnings YoY) and weekly hours, labor-force participation, and JOLTS job openings and quits rate, plus a plain-English labor phase (tight, steady, moderating, or cooling). Use it to read whether the US labor market is tightening or loosening — the other half of the Fed's mandate alongside inflation — and pair with macro, consumer, and production data. Pay-per-call $0.05 in USDC on Base via x402. Data = US Bureau of Labor Statistics (CES, household survey, JOLTS), US government public domain."
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/laborpulse-9fb13db3/health.json
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