[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Good catch. I agree, it looks like announced "planned layoffs" are the ~800k figure (100k/month), and the other 300k/month were not planned nor were they announced.
This may account for the stealth layoffs (as one article recently put it) done by some firms; laying-off small groups per week over several months.
Nevertheless, this is good news, except that it also says that nobody is really hiring.

[lelio]

After releasing its 400k a week that means the difference is closer to 1.6M-100k = 1.5M a month. Granted some of these people only stay on UI for a week, but still. There's a whole bunch of layoffs goin' on!

Are all these layoffs coming from small businesses that don't normally announce their layoffs?

As for Laz saying its one guy getting laid off 250 times a second, you're only allowed to apply for UI once a quarter or half year. Perhaps in a parallel universe he's applying again and its counting.