February 26, 2004 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Mass layoffs up in January 2004In January 2004, there were 2,428 mass layoff actions by employers, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single establishment, and the number of workers involved totaled 239,454.
These data are from the Mass Layoff Statistics program. Mass layoffs data for January 2004 are preliminary and subject to revision. See "Mass Layoffs in January 2004" (PDF) (TXT), USDL 04-287, for more information. Happy 10th Birthday, TED!The very first issue of The Editor's Desk (TED) was posted on September 28, 1998. TED was the first online-only publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 10 years, BLS has been committed to posting a new TED article each business day, for a total of over 2,400 articles so far. |
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