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  Every US state publishes WARN Act layoff notices with a free-text column saying
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  what kind of event it is. The statute recognises **two**: a *plant closing* and a
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  *mass layoff*. Across 48 states that column contains
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- **491 distinct exact strings** (474
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  once you fold case).
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  This dataset is the **crosswalk**: one row per raw string, how many notices carry
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  ## The finding that matters
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- **460 of the 491 strings (94%) are used by exactly one state.
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  Only 31 are shared across states at all.**
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  There is no common vocabulary. `CL` means *closure* in Indiana and Wisconsin;
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  Illinois fills the column with `State`; five states write `WARN` — the name of the
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- statute — where the event type belongs. 324 strings appear on a
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  single notice in the entire archive.
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  This is why "just parse the state files" does not converge: there is nothing to
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  | maps to | distinct strings |
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  |---|---|
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- | layoff | 161 |
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- | closure | 115 |
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- | mixed (both terms present) | 18 |
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  | unknown (deliberately unmapped) | 197 |
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  `unknown` is a real category, not a failure to try. It covers blanks, strings that
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  | raw value | maps to | notices | states | used by |
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  |---|---|---|---|---|
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- | *(blank)* | **unknown** | 13,209 | 29 | AK CO CT DC FL HI ID KY LA MA MN MO MT ND… |
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  | `Layoff Permanent` | **layoff** | 7,812 | 2 | CA TN |
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- | `Closure` | **closure** | 6,067 | 15 | AK AL CO KY MI MS NC NE NV NY OH PA VA WA WV |
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- | `Layoff` | **layoff** | 5,939 | 15 | AK AL KY MI MO MS NC NE NV NY OH PA VA WA WV |
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  | `State` | **unknown** | 4,845 | 1 | IL |
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  | `Closure Permanent` | **closure** | 4,164 | 2 | CA TN |
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  | `Layoff Temporary` | **layoff** | 3,657 | 2 | CA TN |
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  | `WARN` | **unknown** | 1,658 | 5 | AZ DE KS ME VT |
 
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  | `Closing` | **closure** | 1,196 | 8 | CO CT IA MN MO PA RI WV |
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- | `Plant Closing` | **closure** | 917 | 3 | MI OK PA |
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  | `CL` | **closure** | 862 | 2 | IN WI |
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- | `Mass Layoff` | **layoff** | 837 | 7 | CO IA MD MI OK PA WV |
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  ## Files
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- - **`data/notice_type_crosswalk.csv`** — 491 rows:
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  `raw_value`, `kind`, `permanence`, `reason`, `notices`, `n_states`, `states`.
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- Covers all **59,806** notices in the archive as of
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- 2026-09-12; rebuilt daily in the same pipeline run as the notices
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  themselves, so the two can never disagree.
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  ## Limits — read before citing
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  - [Site](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space) · [Source and methodology](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices)
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  License CC-BY-4.0. Built from public state government records.
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- <!-- warn-feed:offer:start -->
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- ## Use it, or keep watching it
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- This dataset is one cut of a single daily rebuild: **61,306 US WARN Act
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- layoff notices from 48 state agencies, 1988 to today**, one schema, no
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- login, no delay, CC BY 4.0. Snapshot as of **2026-09-13**; the files above are
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- rebuilt every day, so the live count is the truth.
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-
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- **Look something up right now — free, no signup, nothing to install.**
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- [Check any employer or state against the last 180 days
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- →](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/watch-now.html) It runs in your browser against these same files.
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- **Building something with it?** The same files are a free HTTP API — JSON and
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- CSV, no key, no signup, `access-control-allow-origin: *` so `fetch()` works from
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- a browser: [endpoints, schema and curl examples →](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/api.html)
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- **Or have it watch a list for you.** Coming back to look is the part a CSV cannot
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- do. **WARN Watch — $49 for a year**, one payment, nothing auto-renews, 14-day
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- refund, no login: up to 500 employer names plus whole states, matched on every
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- daily refresh, delivered to a private alert page + calendar (.ics) + RSS +
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- an optional Slack / Discord / Teams webhook. Every alert carries that employer's
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- whole filing history from the archive, which a keyword rule on an RSS feed cannot
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- see. There is no built-in email — we do not claim one.
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- - [See a real alert page before paying](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/watch-sample.html) · [what you get](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/watch.html)
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- - [Try it free for 30 days, no card](https://approj.gumroad.com/l/warn-free-watch) · [Buy — $49/year](https://approj.gumroad.com/l/warn-watch)
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- **Reaching a human.** WARN Feed is published by APProjects, an automated data
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- publisher — that is stated plainly rather than dressed up. Corrections, coverage
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- gaps, schema questions and refund requests all go here and are read:
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- [open an issue](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/issues/new/choose). Payments are handled by Gumroad as merchant of
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- record, so an invoice can carry your company name.
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- [Source, scrapers and methodology](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices) · [the 48-state site](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/)
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- <!-- warn-feed:offer:end -->
 
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  Every US state publishes WARN Act layoff notices with a free-text column saying
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  what kind of event it is. The statute recognises **two**: a *plant closing* and a
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  *mass layoff*. Across 48 states that column contains
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+ **552 distinct exact strings** (531
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  once you fold case).
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  This dataset is the **crosswalk**: one row per raw string, how many notices carry
 
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  ## The finding that matters
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+ **521 of the 552 strings (94%) are used by exactly one state.
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  Only 31 are shared across states at all.**
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  There is no common vocabulary. `CL` means *closure* in Indiana and Wisconsin;
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  Illinois fills the column with `State`; five states write `WARN` — the name of the
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+ statute — where the event type belongs. 372 strings appear on a
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  single notice in the entire archive.
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  This is why "just parse the state files" does not converge: there is nothing to
 
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  | maps to | distinct strings |
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  |---|---|
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+ | layoff | 185 |
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+ | closure | 147 |
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+ | mixed (both terms present) | 23 |
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  | unknown (deliberately unmapped) | 197 |
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  `unknown` is a real category, not a failure to try. It covers blanks, strings that
 
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  | raw value | maps to | notices | states | used by |
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  |---|---|---|---|---|
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+ | *(blank)* | **unknown** | 13,759 | 29 | AK CO CT DC FL HI ID KY LA MA MN MO MT ND… |
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  | `Layoff Permanent` | **layoff** | 7,812 | 2 | CA TN |
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+ | `Closure` | **closure** | 6,077 | 15 | AK AL CO KY MI MS NC NE NV NY OH PA VA WA WV |
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+ | `Layoff` | **layoff** | 5,943 | 15 | AK AL KY MI MO MS NC NE NV NY OH PA VA WA WV |
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  | `State` | **unknown** | 4,845 | 1 | IL |
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  | `Closure Permanent` | **closure** | 4,164 | 2 | CA TN |
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  | `Layoff Temporary` | **layoff** | 3,657 | 2 | CA TN |
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  | `WARN` | **unknown** | 1,658 | 5 | AZ DE KS ME VT |
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+ | `Plant Closing` | **closure** | 1,398 | 4 | MI NY OK PA |
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  | `Closing` | **closure** | 1,196 | 8 | CO CT IA MN MO PA RI WV |
 
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  | `CL` | **closure** | 862 | 2 | IN WI |
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+ | `Mass Layoff` | **layoff** | 838 | 8 | CO IA MD MI NY OK PA WV |
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  ## Files
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+ - **`data/notice_type_crosswalk.csv`** — 552 rows:
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  `raw_value`, `kind`, `permanence`, `reason`, `notices`, `n_states`, `states`.
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+ Covers all **61,304** notices in the archive as of
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+ 2026-09-13; rebuilt daily in the same pipeline run as the notices
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  themselves, so the two can never disagree.
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  ## Limits — read before citing
 
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  - [Site](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space) · [Source and methodology](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices)
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  License CC-BY-4.0. Built from public state government records.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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