We built layoffhedge.com and $LAYOFF to keep tabs on every major layoff in 2026. To hold companies accountable when they fire American workers and file for cheaper foreign labor in the same quarter. This is the largest shift in labor since the Industrial Revolution. We keep tabs on it all. The good. The bad. The ugly. The data. The numbers right now: 580,000+ people have lost their jobs from major companies in 2026 215+ companies 230 separate layoff rounds 3,100+ jobs cut per day Tech, finance, healthcare, retail, auto, media, telecom, manufacturing. Nobody is safe. The last time we pinned a tweet, 41,000 of you were following. Today it is 50,000+, with 55 million+ impressions. And this stopped being a niche story. Ron DeSantis used our data to call H-1B "a total scam" and "indentured servitude." He pushed Florida's public universities to pause H-1B hiring for a year. Newsweek cited our visa research last week and called us "a workforce analytics firm." An anonymous account with a spreadsheet became a research operation that newsrooms cite. The receipts keep stacking. Our H-1B tool holds 6.8 million+ DOL filings across 238,000+ employers, free to search. Look up any company and see exactly who files for visas while cutting American staff. We cross-reference the layoff data against the filings and publish investigations with companies named. Journalists and researchers download our datasets free. Last month, we partnered with Wekruit to help connect those laid off with high paying start ups and get them back in the work force. You can browse our open roles at layoffhedge.com/jobs. Real openings from companies that are actually hiring. You interview directly with hiring managers. No resume black hole. No ghost listings. The same site that shows you who is cutting now shows you who is hiring. We spent all year tracking the layoffs. Now we can get you hired. $LAYOFF is the stake behind the work. Every week brings another round of cuts. The story is not going away, and neither are we. A people movement that happens to have a token. We will be here for you every step of the way.

Sports Illustrated domain just became a lot more valuable…

SINCE 2022: 708,762 U.S. tech job cuts announced. 702,400 H-1B visas issued to Indian nationals. If you truly think this is a coincidence, you are not paying attnetion.

Blaze Reporter Sara Gonzales just exposed an H-1B Sponsor for Scamming the Visa system. He has since shut the company down and fled the country. I asked the DOL Inspector General whats going to happen to him. He said he is going to hunt him down and put in chains. "The real sign is going to be us holding these people accountable, holding the companies accountable, whether it's civil penalties and obviously holding those accountable who are breaking the law. And for those people, we have plenty of sets of handcuffs ready for them." "We have a FBI director that flat out has told us there is no state you can hide in, there's no country you can hide in, there's no continent that you can hide in. We will send agents and we will find you and we will extradite you back to the United States of America." Lock them all up @USLaborIG Amazing reporting @SaraGonzalesTX

FLOCK OFFERS BUYOUTS TO ROUGHLY 1,500 EMPLOYEES Flock Safety sells to cities, and 93 city and county governments cut ties in August alone. One source told WIRED that without the buyouts, layoffs were almost certain. Five days later, Semafor reported Flock is weighing a sale.

STARBUCKS CLOSES 250 STORES THIS WEEK WHILE OFFSHORING JOBS TO INDIA About 1% of its U.S. and Canada locations, with a $300M charge and no job count disclosed. Three days earlier it signed for a Chennai tech center with about 800 jobs. Corporate cuts this year: 585.

ADMINISTRATION ALL IN ON H-1B NARRATIVE AHEAD OF MIDTERMS JD just weighed in today, but the order is from September 18th. We expect the language around this to only intensify as this becomes a HUGE issue going into the elections. We just pray that this is for the right reasons, and not political theater. The order tells the agencies reviewing H-1B applications to weigh an employer's "recent or planned layoffs of similarly situated U.S. workers." DOL has 30 days to start auditing past H-1B filings. The order gives Labor's Wage and Hour Division until october 18 to begin reviewing past labor condition applications for enforcement against sponsoring employers. 2026 announced cuts vs FY2026 H-1B filings, per layoffhedge: Amazon 17,379 / 20,007 Meta 16,000 / 5,197 Intel 15,000 / 1,746 Microsoft 13,682 / 5,126 At least 54 of the 89 companies with 1,000+ cuts filed this year.

NEVER FORGET: JAMIE DIMON WAS RUNNING CHASE WHEN WE BAILED IT OUT March 2008: the Fed put up $29 billion to pull Bear Stearns' worst assets off the books so Dimon could buy what was left. October 2008: $25 billion of TARP money into JPMorgan. Dimon sat on the New York Fed's board through all of it. Class A director since January 2007. Here is how Dimon paid us back. H-1B approvals at JPMorgan, USCIS data: FY2009, the bailout year: 497 FY2025: 3,068 In total? 31,438 approvals since the year we wrote the check. That makes Chase the 9th largest H-1B sponsor in the country. No other bank cracks the top 25. India headcount over the same years, Dimon's own number: 6,000 to 60,000. The Mumbai campus Dimon is building seats 30,000 and opens in 2029. Jamie Dimon has zero gratitude for what this country has done for his bank.

Brought to you by: The same woman laying off thousands of employees her first few months on the job and that has zero actual gaming experience Diabolical work

AI is creating more jobs for SENIOR engineers. The pathway to becoming a senior engineer has just become infinitely harder. CS grads now have the same unemployment as Anthropology and Fine Arts majors.

H-1B APPROVALS BY PRESIDENT 6.4M petitions since 2009. 94.0% approved. Obama 94.5%. Trump I 88.4%. Biden 97.7%. Trump II 97.4% so far. Up until now, it has not mattered who's president. Will that change the last two years of Trump?

That’s 60,000 jobs that should be in America.

Microsoft latest XBOX layoffs impact over 260 employees, primarily within Halo studios. Here is the email sent to the teams impacted. Microsoft (including Xbox) rank top 8 in the hiring of H-1B employees. This is while conducting multiple rounds of mass layoffs.

MORE XBOX LAYOFFS Guess who’s at it again…

AI is not a bubble AI is not a bubble AI is not a bubble

#WTH Kroger just hired the Walmart guy whose claim to fame was shipping 7,000 American back-office jobs to India… and his first big move is building a shiny new “Global Capability Center” in Bangalore so they can quietly erase another 5,700 U.S. paychecks. Nothing says “American grocery chain” quite like a French consultant on a visa gutting Cincinnati headquarters while the new CEO treats Midwest workers like an expense line to be optimized out of existence. Globalists call it “streamlining decision-making.” Normal people call it “we don’t actually need you Americans anymore.” But sure, keep shopping there. I’m sure the Bangalore call center will be real sympathetic when your prices go up and the only American left in the building is the guy who pushed the button.