US Economic Data (BLS)

Access official US economic statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pull unemployment rates, Consumer Price Index (CPI), and employment figures by industry. Query any BLS time series directly or use the convenience tools.

Tools

Scenarios

• "What's the current US unemployment rate?" — call get_unemployment
• Tracking inflation trends via CPI over a specific year range
• Comparing employment growth across industries (healthcare, tech, manufacturing)
• Building economic dashboards with official government data

Example: CPI for 2022-2024

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/econdata/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_cpi","arguments":{"start_year":"2022","end_year":"2024"}}}'

Returns monthly CPI values with period name, year, and value.

Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-econdata": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/econdata/mcp"]
    }
  }
}