D.C.-area job losses happening faster than during covid, data suggests
Job losses in the D.C. area appear to be steeper than at the same point in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was ravaging the economy, a Washington Post analysis of available layoff data shows, though the full impacts of the Trump administration's federal spending cuts are still not known.
The data comes from notices filed by employers under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act of 1988, which requires large employers to issue these notices before mass layoffs or plant closures. The WARN data offers only a partial view of the region's labor market, as it typically applies just to private-sector employers, though this dataset also includes more than 2,000 job cuts made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Maryland.
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