Mass layoffs down across United States - Portland Business Journal:

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A total of 271,226 American workerxs lost their jobs through mass layoffsin April. That was down 28,162 from the Marc total, according to a report released Friday bythe . A mass layoffr is defined as a single action by a singlr employer that causes at least 50 workers to lose their The Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates mass layofd data on a seasonallyadjustes basis. Nationwide, the number of mass layoff events decreased from montnto month, as did the number of affected The bureau counted 2,712 mass layoffs in compared to 2,933 in March. The manufacturingf sector accounted for 35 percent of all mass layoff eventsx and 39 percent of affectedf workersin April.
California recorded the largestr number of workers affected bymass layoffs, with 43,675 losingb their jobs last month. It was followex by New York at Illinoisat 17,550, and Pennsylvania at 15,378. Forty-fivde states and Washington, D.C. let go of more peopl due to mass layoffs in Aprilo 2009 than in the same month ayear ago, with the largesg increases reported in New York, California and Illinois.