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Jun 25, 2026
California Layoffs in 2025: What the WARN Data Shows
California recorded **1,691 layoff events affecting 97,751 workers across 673 companies in 2025**, according to layoff records compiled from state WARN Act filings. That makes it the single largest source of WARN-documented layoff activity in the country for the year — more reported events than any other state, and close to a quarter of every affected worker captured in the national dataset. This piece breaks that activity down by place and by month, and is equally clear about what the WARN record can and can't show.
Jun 25, 2026
New York Labor Disruption: 2025 WARN Filings Meet BLS Projections
New York produced two very different pictures of labor disruption in 2025, depending on which data you read. The WARN record — the layoff notices employers are legally required to file — shows 623 events affecting 21,461 workers, the second-most filings of any state in the country, driven hardest by a single autumn wave of ground-transportation closures. The federal occupational projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics describe something else entirely: the jobs the state is structurally projected to *lose* over the coming years are concentrated in printing, sewing, paper goods, and other machine-operator trades that scarcely surface in the year's filings at all. This piece reads the two signals side by side and asks what the distance between them reveals about how labor disruption actually arrives.
Jun 24, 2026
How LayoffTracker Collects and Verifies Layoff Data
LayoffTracker.us compiles a public dataset of U.S. layoff events…
Jun 23, 2026
Top 10 Declining Careers and Where Your Skills Can Take You Next: 2026 Guide
A \"declining\" job isn't a dead one — it's a job the data expects to employ fewer people by 2034 than it does today, which is a very different thing from a job with no future for the people in it. The skills you built in a shrinking occupation almost always transfer somewhere, and the useful question isn't \"is my job declining?\" but \"where do these exact skills go next?\" This guide ranks the ten fastest-declining U.S. occupations on federal projections through 2034, and then — for every one of them — maps the skill-adjacent jobs those workers can move into, ranked by skill overlap.