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Sources inside the record keep their own terms: see attribution, and https://talentrisk.com/data#licences-h.","attribution":["News discovered through The GDELT Project (gdeltproject.org).","The company's own press release, linked.","US WARN notices: WARN Feed (approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space), CC BY 4.0, compiled from state listings; matched, de-duplicated and summarised by Talent Risk.","Source: BODACC, Direction de l'information légale et administrative; data as published on the date shown with each notice.","Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, retrieved daily. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.","Source: Eurostat, datasets jvs_q_nace2 and une_rt_m (EU27_2020), retrieved daily; latest value and the value a year earlier shown, unchanged.","Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0."]}