Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:
Georgia based medical transportation provider, LogistiCare, laid off 64 people at its Madison, Wisconsin, call center. Company officials blame it on Obama Care, saying one of their biggest customers had to cut back because their Medicaid reimbursements were being cut.
California: In Santa Monica Norms Restaurants closed. 62 people out-o-work. In Mountain View, Symantec laid off 62 employees. In Bakersfield, Xerox laid off 150 people! G4S Government Solutions laid of 13 people at the Oakland Airport. Boeing laid off a total of 129 people in four cities!
In Oregon, CenturyLink closed its Hood River operations. 51 people unemployed.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.