Where our data comes from
The federal WARN Act requires larger employers to file public notice of mass layoffs and closures. States publish these filings as public records. CanaryWhistle reproduces those official records faithfully and attributes each to its source, we don't invent, estimate, or editorialize the filing data itself.
Official sources · 49 jurisdictions
Every jurisdiction below links to its own government WARN page. Most publish a file or list; a few (California, Texas, Oregon) also expose a structured open-data endpoint, which we read directly. This list and the coverage register are generated from the same record, so they cannot disagree.
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Not collected yet · 2 jurisdictions
Nobody covers all fifty states, and a coverage claim that does not say where the gaps are is worth nothing. These are ours, with the reason in each case.
Per-jurisdiction filing counts and the last successful collection time are on the coverage register.
What we add, and what it is
On top of the raw filing we compute likely affected role families and an estimated payroll figure. Be clear on what that number is: it is a national median wage by role family, from public Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, multiplied by the headcount on the filing. It is a modelled estimate for scale, not the actual salaries of the affected workers, and we never present it as such. Where a state feed omits a field (a role breakdown, an effective date), we leave it blank rather than guess.
No personal data of affected workers
WARN filings are company-level records. We do not collect, store, or publish the names or contact details of any individual employee. The "talent on the market" framing refers to public job-search resources, not personal data.
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