“Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks ‘mass layoffs.’ That’s the term for more than 50 people losing their jobs at once. In August of this year, the total number of people hit by a mass layoff was 127,944. The number has been more than 100,000 every month except for one in the last decade.”

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