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State labor and workforce agencies

WARN notices: State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices

JobMarketHealth summarizes official state notice listings as statewide counts. Sources with exact notice days use an explicitly displayed 90-calendar-day period. New Jersey and Pennsylvania publish notice timing by month, so their figures use the latest three completed calendar months, labeled month posted or month received. Current-month entries are separate and partial; missing months are unavailable, not zero. No exact notice day is invented. Some state tracking systems also include smaller Rapid Response or courtesy filings below federal WARN thresholds and are labeled separately. Notices describe planned workforce changes, not confirmed job losses.

Shown as contextVaries by state, from twice weekly to as notices are processed

What it measures

  • The number of notices in the official source whose notice dates fall inside the displayed period
  • The exact statewide reporting window, expressed as UTC calendar dates
  • For Oregon, statewide positions reported in notices and notice/position totals for the latest two completed calendar months, grouped by notice date
  • The official source and the time it was last read successfully

What it does not measure

Most misreadings of labor data come from asking a dataset a question it was not built to answer. These are the limits worth holding onto.

  • All layoffs or workforce changes; the scope and publication practices of state lists differ
  • Layoffs or demand in a specific occupation
  • Confirmed job losses or the number of workers actually laid off; notices may be amended or withdrawn
  • A consistent national total, because source coverage and publication practices differ by state

Update cadence

Varies by state, from twice weekly to as notices are processed.

Occupation pages name the specific release behind each figure and when it was imported, so you can see how current a number is rather than assuming it is new. More on that on about the data.

How JobMarketHealth uses it

  • Shown on state labor-market pages and supported occupation-state pages where an official state feed can be read reliably, with the exact reporting period and last successful source check. Oregon also shows statewide reported-position totals and a separate comparison of the latest two completed calendar months.
  • Company names, individual notices, individual worker counts and locations are not displayed or included in public WARN responses. A notice count is not a count of companies laying off workers, and reported positions are not confirmed job losses.
  • Oregon's reported-position total is shown only when every notice in that period publishes a count. Otherwise it says Not fully reported and shows how many notices publish a count. Position changes are withheld if either month is incomplete; an unverified month is never treated as zero. Both months are calculated from the same verified source read and may change after source revisions.
  • Source links open the official agency's information page, not a spreadsheet download or an individual notice.
  • JobMarketHealth reads each state's own official publication. When a feed cannot be read reliably, its card is hidden rather than replaced with a guessed count or third-party data. Broader state tracking systems are labeled separately when they can include events below federal WARN thresholds.
  • When a state's official source cannot be read, that state's WARN figures are shown as unavailable rather than carried forward as current.
  • WARN is not an input to the Job Market Health score.

Where it sits

This dataset is displayed as context on the pages described above and is not an input to the score. Read the methodology.

Official source

State labor and workforce agencies publishes State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices. JobMarketHealth organizes and derives from that public data and is not its publisher.

U.S. Department of Labor WARN program overview

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