U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Monthly releases on the BLS schedule (Employment Situation first Friday, CPI mid-month, 8:30 a.m. ET); values served are the current vintage — recent CES months are preliminary, and seasonally adjusted series are revised when seasonal factors are re-estimated.
License: public-domain · official terms. Attribution text and per-series license flags ride in every API envelope.
Source API docs · Verification statuses come from golden-value and freshness checks against the live source; see status.
Quickstart
Latest observations, with provenance and citation on every value:
curl "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/sources/bls/series/CUSR0000SA0/observations?latest=12"
A computed, cited answer from this source:
curl -X POST "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/answer" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"question": "What is the latest All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, seasona?", "source": "bls"}'
As MCP tools in Claude, Cursor, or any agent framework:
claude mcp add --transport http starwell https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/mcp
Series
| Series | Indicator | Geography | Unit | Freq | Coverage | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUSR0000SA0 | All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted | United States | Index 1982-84=100 | monthly | 1947-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | passing |
| CUUR0000SA0 | All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted | United States | Index 1982-84=100 | monthly | 1913-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | passing |
| LNS14000000 | (Seas) Unemployment Rate | United States | Percent | monthly | 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | passing |
| LNS12300000 | (Seas) Employment-Population Ratio | United States | Percent | monthly | 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | passing |
| LNS11300000 | (Seas) Labor Force Participation Rate | United States | Percent | monthly | 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | passing |
| CUUR0000SA0L1E | All items less food and energy in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted | United States | Index 1982-84=100 | monthly | 1957-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | unverified |
| CES0000000001 | All employees, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted | United States | Thousands of employees | monthly | 1939-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | passing |
| LNS12000000 | (Seas) Employment Level | United States | Thousands of persons | monthly | 1948-01-01 .. 2026-06-01 | unverified |
| CES0500000003 | Average hourly earnings of all employees, total private, seasonally adjusted | United States | Dollars per hour | monthly | 2006-03-01 .. 2026-06-01 | unverified |