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Labor Market data feeds

Job postings, hiring, and wage signals that lead the official employment reports by weeks.

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Public feeds

State WARN portals e.g. California EDD WARN list, NY DOL WARN, Texas WARN (twc.texas.gov), Florida DEO WARN — most publish CSV/HTML tables updated daily/weekly

WARN filings are a leading, legally-mandated 60-day-advance signal of plant/office closures, predicting regional consumer spending drops and homebuilder/retail weakness before BLS layoffs data catches up → regional retail REITs, homebuilders, state muni bonds, consumer discretionary

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layoffs.fyi tracker delta

layoffs.fyi (public table, has an underlying Airtable/API)

Tech-sector layoff clustering front-runs guidance cuts at software/ad-tech names and SF/Seattle commercial real estate vacancy → tech sector equities, SaaS ad spend proxies, Bay Area CRE

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Uber/Lyft driver quoted surge & base fare snapshots

Uber and Lyft public price-estimate pages/apps (no official API for public, but price estimate endpoints are fetchable)

Rising surge frequency and base fares signal driver-supply shortage, i.e., gig labor pulling back — a leading indicator of gig-worker income conditions and low-wage labor tightness → UBER/LYFT equities, gig-economy labor supply, low-wage CPI

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DoorDash/Instacart quoted delivery pay per offer

DoorDash Dasher app / Instacart Shopper app batch offer screens (community trackers like 'Gridwise' publish aggregate rate data)

Falling per-offer pay signals oversupply of gig workers (more people needing side income = labor market softening) while rising pay signals gig-labor shortage → DASH equity, gig labor supply, low-income consumer stress

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SEC 10-K/10-Q employee headcount disclosures

SEC EDGAR full-text search API (efts.sec.gov) parsing 'Human Capital' / employee count sections

Headcount trend deltas quarter-over-quarter are a clean, official, low-noise proxy for cost discipline that predates margin guidance → single-name equity margin forecasts

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ZipRecruiter job posting count & 'urgently hiring' tag frequency

ziprecruiter.com search result pages/sitemap (no public API, but sitemaps list job URLs)

Frequency of urgency-tagged postings is a real-time proxy for acute local labor shortages ahead of wage-pressure reports → regional wage inflation, small-business labor cost proxy

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State unemployment insurance initial claims (raw state portals)

individual state labor department dashboards (e.g., Texas Workforce Commission, California EDD, Ohio JFS — several publish near-daily counts)

Some state portals update claims counts before the Thursday national DOL release, giving a few-day informational edge on the closely-watched initial claims print → rates/bond market reaction to jobless claims release, regional equities

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Robert Half / ManpowerGroup / ASGN quarterly bill-rate disclosures

company investor relations pages, 8-K/10-Q filings

Bill-rate compression at large staffing firms predicts broader wage deceleration before it shows in official wage data → staffing equities, wage inflation forecasting

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Google Trends 'file for unemployment' search interest by state

Google Trends (trends.google.com, has an unofficial but stable JSON endpoint via pytrends)

Search interest in filing unemployment spikes 3-7 days ahead of official state claims data being reported, a well-documented Fed-research-validated nowcast → initial jobless claims nowcast trade, rates

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Trucking driver job posting & CDL wage trends

DAT Freight & Analytics public blog data / Indeed CDL category filter / truckingtruth.com job board

Driver pay and posting volume lead freight capacity cycles — falling driver wages signal overcapacity and impending freight-rate weakness (a well-known freight-recession tell) → trucking/freight equities (JBHT, KNX), freight rate futures

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Glassdoor 'interview difficulty' & offer-acceptance sentiment deltas

glassdoor.com company review pages (no public API, HTML scrape)

Lengthening interview processes and declining 'positive interview experience' shares signal employer market power increasing (hiring caution) ahead of headcount cuts → single-name equity, sector hiring-caution index

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Warehouse/logistics seasonal hiring announcements (Amazon, UPS, FedEx, USPS)

company press releases (aboutamazon.com, investors pages) + careers site JSON APIs for seasonal role counts

Divergence between announced seasonal hiring targets and actual posting volume predicts e-commerce holiday volume expectations before retail sales data confirms it → e-commerce/retail equities, holiday retail sales nowcast, parcel volume forecasts

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Nurse/healthcare travel-staffing bill rates

Vivian Health / Aya Healthcare / trusted health public rate transparency pages (some publish aggregate rate trend blogs)

Travel nurse rate spikes are the fastest-moving proxy for acute hospital staffing shortages, leading hospital system labor-cost guidance and regional healthcare capacity strain → hospital system equities (HCA, CHS), healthcare staffing firms (AMN, CCRN)

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State Secretary of State Daily New Business Filings

State SOS bulk data portals (Texas SOSDirect, Florida Sunbiz, Delaware Division of Corporations open data)

New business formation precedes hiring by 3-9 months; state-level daily raw filings are more granular than the quarterly Census Business Formation Statistics most funds watch → Regional small-business employment, state economic dynamism, local bank commercial lending

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Port Authority Vessel Queue / At-Anchor Count

Individual port authority dashboards (Port of LA/Long Beach Signal, Port of NY/NJ vessel schedules) rather than the commodity MarineTraffic feed

Queue backlog predicts surges in longshore overtime hours and casual-labor call-ups before official TEU throughput releases → Port labor demand, import-heavy retailers, freight forwarders

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Locked — held back

Redacted and held back — our highest-signal feeds plus anything with compliance restrictions. Not for sale yet. The FREE and PREMIUM tiers are on pricing.