APProjects/us-warn-act-layoffs-daily

US WARN Act Layoff Notices — normalized, 39 states, rebuilt every day

Last rebuilt: 2026-09-03. An automated pipeline re-scrapes 39 state labor-department portals every day, re-normalizes, re-deduplicates and re-uploads this file. Compare that date with the "last modified" date on any other US WARN dataset on the Hub before you choose one — WARN data is a moving target and a one-shot upload starts rotting the week it is posted (states amend headcounts, re-issue notices, and silently drop rows).

Every US layoff notice filed under the WARN Act that we can reach, scraped daily from 39 state portals, normalized to one schema, deduplicated, with canonicalized employer names. 9,423 notices from 39 states in this free tier (notices dated 2024-01-01 onward, published with no delay). States in this CSV: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MS, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV. Not covered yet: AR, HI, ID, MA, MN, MO, ND, NH, NV, OH, VA, WY — coverage.json (included) lists what the pipeline currently scrapes.

Quickstart

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("APProjects/us-warn-act-layoffs-daily", split="train")
print(ds[0])

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/"
                 "us-warn-act-layoffs-daily/resolve/main/data/warn_notices.csv")
# layoffs by month
df.groupby(df.notice_date.str[:7]).employees_affected.sum().tail(12)

This is a live mirror of github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices — stats site, per-state CSVs, weekly/monthly pages, RSS, and API docs live there.

Schema

column	meaning
id	stable row id (source-issued key where the state provides one)
state	two-letter state code
company	employer name as filed
company_canonical	canonicalized employer name (dedup/rollup-friendly)
company_dba	"doing business as" alias, when filed
location	site location as filed
employees_affected	headcount on the notice (blank when the state omits it)
notice_date	date the notice was filed
effective_date	planned layoff/closure date
notice_type	layoff / closure / amendment etc., as filed
first_seen	date our pipeline first observed this row

Freshness & coverage

Regenerated from state sources every day; broken scrapers are repaired within a cycle, and per-state coverage is tracked in coverage.json (included here). A one-off copy of this dataset rots in weeks — several states silently amend, re-issue, or remove rows; the pipeline reconciles that daily with stable-id retention logic.

Full data (paid tiers)

• WARN Watch (your employers + states matched on every daily refresh; private alert page + RSS, no login): $49/year — free 30-day watch
• Full historical archive (1988–present, all 45,755 rows, CSV): $199 one-time

License & citation

Free tier: CC BY 4.0. Cite as "WARN Feed, github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices" (see CITATION.cff in the GitHub repo). Underlying scrapers include Apache-2.0 code from biglocalnews/warn-scraper (attributed in-repo).