Drum roll, please .... Planned announced layoffs fell 21% in August!
While U.S. employers announced 97,373 job cuts in July, that number dropped to 76,456 in August.
That's 20,917 people who were saved from losing their jobs!
While That's Awesome News...
...we also need to keep in mind that the total amount of job cuts climbed to 1.07 million from January through August, which is a 60% increase from the same time last year.
(But we choose to take this nugget of positive news as a sign of things hopefully moving in the right direction.)
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