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Companies announced nearly 40,000 layoffs last month, more than any October on record, and one of the highest one-month (Original Post) tblue37 Nov 2025 OP
This is going to be a rough winter. We put up food in the pantry and paid off our cars. marble falls Nov 2025 #1
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Actually, the average monthly job loss over the last 3 months of 2008 Wiz Imp Nov 2025 #3

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3. Actually, the average monthly job loss over the last 3 months of 2008
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 04:58 PM
Nov 2025

was 638,000. This year's October number would have been really bad given that all those Federal employees who took the deferred resignation offered early in the year should have come off the Federal payroll in October, creating a massive Federal Government job loss. Given that October data collection was not performed, I'll be curious how they come up with the estimates for October. (They aren't doing an official release for October, but they still have to come up with an estimated level to link off of for the November estimates.)

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