Will the seasonally adjusted U.S. unemployment rate (U-3) for December 2028 be above 6.5%?
Read as: Will the U.S. unemployment rate for December 2028 be above 6.5%, as first published?
· BLS Employment Situation release
Probability of yes
11%range 2–20%
Takes the latest published value and applies every historical 27-month change (full history and last decade), alongside a normal random walk. The models carry no trend assumption; the recent trend is shown for context only.
Data · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Public Data API
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Kalshi · updated Oct 10, 2026, 07:02 UTC
Will the seasonally adjusted U.S. unemployment rate (U-3) for December 2028 be above 6.5%?Market
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