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WARN filings are one of the clearest public signals of local economic stress. Residents, journalists, workforce boards, and local officials need to see where layoffs are hitting before the impact shows up in lagging indicators.
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What you’re looking at
A live ledger of Texas Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings: when each notice was filed, when workers lose their jobs, how many positions are affected, and how much warning they received.
The question behind it
Built from the Texas Workforce Commission WARN dataset to make mass-layoff notices legible as a statewide early-warning system instead of a buried spreadsheet.
Why it matters
WARN filings are one of the clearest public signals of local economic stress. Residents, journalists, workforce boards, and local officials need to see where layoffs are hitting before the impact shows up in lagging indicators.
Open the full visualizationSources & method
- Texas Workforce Commission / data.texas.gov WARN filings dataset
Method
Client-side view of the Texas WARN dataset published at data.texas.gov/resource/8w53-c4f6.json, enriched with notice-to-layoff countdowns and county/state visualizations. Rows link back to the underlying public dataset fields.