Historical and live U.S

Name: Historical and live U.S. WARN Act / mini-WARN mass-layoff and plant-closure notice database: 75,973 notices covering 30,728 companies, 8,006,254 workers laid off across 46 states, 1987-2026, resolved to record level (specific office/site address, exact headcount, notice date and layoff date, industry) rather than company-wide totals. Adjacent assets on the same site: a U.S. data-center inventory (facility-level power, permits, operators) and a state retraining-data table
Creator: Warntracker

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Historical and live U.S. WARN Act / mini-WARN mass-layoff and plant-closure notice database: 75,973 notices covering 30,728 companies, 8,006,254 workers laid off across 46 states, 1987-2026, resolved to record level (specific office/site address, exact headcount, notice date and layoff date, industry) rather than company-wide totals. Adjacent assets on the same site: a U.S. data-center inventory (facility-level power, permits, operators) and a state retraining-data table

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Industry: Research & Consulting Services
Instruments: equitiesfixed_incomereal_assets
Categories: AlternativeFundamentalGeospatial
Regions: US
Sample tickers: AAPLJACKSKF SwedishBTSILVMH

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular — 17 columns per record, delivered as a weekly email digest of every new notice plus a filterable live spreadsheet view of the full database with CSV export; historical bulk purchase offered
Volume: 75,973 WARN notices across 30,728 companies and 8,006,254 workers laid off, 46 states, 17 columns per record — with 788 notices so far in 2026 and 2,250 in 2025
Users: ~0 registered-user base — sold as paid subscription by invoice with weekly email delivery plus a shared live spreadsheet; only a free email-alert list, no account or login surface
History: 39 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — current-year notices published to the current week, an open paid subscription with weekly delivery, and a maintained Substack/insights channel; per-year counts show continuing accumulation
Launched: est. 2020-2022 as a website (one-person IT-services entity in business databases), with the archive itself back-loaded to 1987 — the 1987 start reflects historical acquisition, not continuous collection since then
Delivery: not stated
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