Big Local News is collecting and updating WARN (layoff/furlough) notices from state government sites and is processing the data to make it more useable. So far, we are collecting and updating daily or weekly data from 36 states. A federal law -- the WARN Act (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) requires companies with more than 100 employees to give 60 days notice of any layoff, closure or furlough and 17 states have their own similar statutes. This data provides much more granularity into the types of jobs being lost and the companies that are furloughing workers, or that plan to close completely. A key note is that "unforeseen business circumstances" can mean that a company doesn't have to provide 60 days notice. For example, California has lifted that level of notice for its state version, or mini-WARN Act. Nonetheless, even though the advance time limit is flexible, companies still have to submit. Please cite the WARN data as collected by Big Local News. California data can be cited as collected and processed by Stanford journalism student Vanessa Ochavillo. This project includes a general README, a more specific README for California and a more specific file layout README that details the fields by state. Some states are missing but we are working to obtain the data or build scrapers. If you are interested in contributing, please let us know at biglocalnews@stanford.edu.

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22 rows where Notice Type = "Potential Closure"

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Link rowid ▼ Company City Affected Workers Notice Date LO/CL Date NAICS Description of work Notice Type
509 Hostess BrandsAmended Statewide 856 05/04/12 7/01/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
510 Hostess Brands Notice for Anderson Anderson 18 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
511 Hostess Brands Notice for Bloomington Bloomington 16 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
512 Hostess Brands Notices for:3060 National Road3080 National Road930 Washington Street Columbus 237 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
513 Hostess Brands Notice for Evansville Evansville 14 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
514 Hostess Brands Notice for Fort Wayne Fort Wayne 17 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
515 Hostess Brands Notice for Greenwood Greenwood 29 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
516 Hostess Brands Notice for Hobart Hobart 23 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
517 Hostess Brands Notices for:2801 Lafayette Road2929 North Shadeland3806 Madison Ave5353 West 10th Street9233 East 33rd Street Indianapolis 340 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
518 Hostess Brands Notice for Jeffersonville Jeffersonville 2 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
519 Hostess Brands Notice for Kokomo Kokomo 18 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
520 Hostess Brands Notice for Lafayette Lafayette 16 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
521 Hostess Brands Notice for Madison Madison 12 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
522 Hostess Brands Notice for Merrillville Merrillville 23 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
523 Hostess Brands Notice for Michigan City Michigan City 4 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
524 Hostess Brands Notice for Munster Munster 3 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
525 Hostess Brands Notice for Rushville Rushville 16 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
526 Hostess Brands Notice for Scottsburg Scottsburg 3 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
527 Hostess Brands Notice for South Bend South Bend 25 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
528 Hostess Brands Notices for:425 Fort Harrison Road4429 US HWY 414443 South US HWY 41 Terre Haute 23 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
529 Hostess Brands Notice for Versailles Versailles 3 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure
530 Hostess Brands Notice for Vincennes Merrillville 14 05/04/12 7/02/2012 311812 Commercial Bakeries Potential Closure

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CREATE TABLE [indiana_warn_raw] (
   [Company] TEXT,
   [City] TEXT,
   [Affected Workers] TEXT,
   [Notice Date] TEXT,
   [LO/CL Date] TEXT,
   [NAICS] INTEGER,
   [Description of work] TEXT,
   [Notice Type] TEXT
);