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The million layoffs making headlines aren't hitting everyone equally. When you double click on the data, roughly 50% of those job losses are concentrated in frontline worker environments: manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, hospitality, and retail. These aren't corporate knowledge workers with safety nets and severance packages.

These are low-wage employees working multiple jobs just to survive, and they're being cut first while companies use AI as convenient cover for cost reduction during economic uncertainty. Whether it's actual automation or just budget tightening disguised as technological inevitability, the impact is the same: the workers who can least afford job loss are bearing the largest burden.