cff-version: 1.2.0 message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as below." title: "WARN Feed: US WARN Act layoff notices, normalized and daily-updated" type: dataset authors: - name: "WARN Feed" website: "https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/" repository-code: "https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices" url: "https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/" license: CC-BY-4.0 keywords: - WARN Act - layoff notices - layoffs - labor market - workforce data - economic data - open data abstract: >- Deduplicated, schema-normalized dataset of US WARN Act layoff notices collected from official state labor department listings across 39 states, refreshed daily. Free and complete: every notice we hold, 1988-present, with no delay and no paywalled years; fields include employer (raw and canonicalized), location, employees affected, notice and effective dates, and notice type. Collection builds on the Apache-2.0 biglocalnews/warn-scraper (Stanford Big Local News) plus an independent normalization, dedup and employer-canonicalization layer.