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cwarnold

> The impact: It's the highest number of job cuts in a quarter since 2015.

Highest since 2015 is less surprising than “ highest in a decade”

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Headline:> The U.S. just had the most Q1 layoffs in a decade

Article:> The U.S. saw its highest level of layoffs in a first quarter since 2009

This seems like a reasonable headline for the article.

You can always find catchy headlines if you get specific enough.

"The worst performing Friday the 13th in a non leap year ever."

This isn't a particularly contrived analysis. Year-over-year quarterly financial statistics are extremely common, especially in company analysis since many filings are quarterly.

It's also not very deep. The unemployment rate has been at record lows for a while.

Also generates less clicks. I probably wouldn't have clicked this if it said "most job cuts in a quarter since 2015".

I also feel like the scale of this graph makes this look a lot worse than the numbers indicate.

I feel like saying in a decade also attempts to lay a bunch of things at the current administrations feet by implying it's worse than anything that happened during the previous adminstration.

For the record, my honest opinion is that both of these (and other, yet, previous) administrations share fault.

This sort of headline writing is for cowards and weasels.

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