Today the US Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the October Mass Layoff Events (here are the Sept and Aug blogs). We have watched this since late last year when the number of events crossed the 2,000 mark. This marks our 14 month in a row where we have exceeded that level. While this is still an alarming rate of Layoff Events at least we can say that the trend could be moving in the direction of dropping below the 2,000 next month.
I still have concerns about the state of the US Economy as we approach the end of the year. If I were to guess, I think we will see this number drop below 2,000 for November, but return to greater than 2,000 in December and/or January.
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