Without more detailed data from the federal government, it’s hard to know.

Melanie Ehrenkranz writes Laid Off, a newsletter she describes as “the coolest place on the internet to talk about being laid off.”

Nationally, the unemployment rate is low, at 4.2%. But it’s much higher in some parts of the country than others.

Job cut announcements rose 29% in July from the previous month, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Economic uncertainty has both employers and employees waiting on the sidelines.

Some of those job cuts are normal for the industry. But they’re also a response to looming tariffs.

In a reversal, women lost more federal jobs than men in April.

Employers have laid off at least 700,000 more workers so far this year than at the same point last year.

Microsoft recently laid off about 3% of its workforce — some 6,000 people. A big chunk of those were reportedly software engineers, aka coders.

A little known industry that happens to be Wyoming’s biggest export piqued the interest of one mechanic last year. But sudden industry changes threw his family’s future into limbo.