Estimates of excess deaths can provide information about the burden of mortality potentially related to COVID-19, beyond the number of deaths that are directly attributed to COVID-19. Excess deaths ar
**Overview** This release contains information on initial claims, which are claims filled out by an unemployed individual who has parted with their employer. The claims determine whether this individ
**Overview** Smoothed recession probabilities are obtained from a dynamic-factor markov-switching model applied to four monthly coincident variables: non-farm payroll employment, the index of industr