Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.
Arizona: The city of Phoenix warns of layoffs as they are short $38-million USD! The Fiesta Bowl officials warned of layoffs, blaming the bad economy: “We don’t have the revenue pieces we used to have.”-Duane Woods
California: Sacramento International Airport warned of layoffs. Officials say passenger traffic has dropped by 20% over the past seven years, and they need to cut $14-million from next year’s budget! In Inglewood, 8 Points Management and Hollywood Park Casino killed 487 jobs! In Commerce, Microcell Communications laid off 32 employees. In Hayward, Obama Care killed 116 jobs with Solta Medical! In San Jose, the National Hispanic University shutting down in 2015: “…the Board has determined that because the university continues to face significant ongoing regulatory and financial challenges, the institution cannot operate…”
Connecticut: The Waterford Board of Education announced they will shutdown four elementary schools! School officials officially call disappearing students “out-migration”: “The Waterford School District has seen a total decline of 1-thousand students over the last four years, with this trend expected to continue!”-Rhonda Lessel
Florida: In Daytona Beach, after 51 years Stan’s Transmission shutdown. The pissed off owner blamed the suck ass economy: “….everything has changed and the overhead is just too high. Taxes and medical and workman’s comp and insurance. It costs so much money and I hate working for nothing!”-Robert Mitchell
Illinois: In Lakemore, after 38 years Le Vichyssois restaurant shutdown.
Indiana: In Indianapolis, medical charity Project Health now dead! The Indianapolis Medical Society blames the bad economy for killing donations.
Iowa: In Sioux City, after 30 years Rhonda’s Speak Easy shutting down, 10 jobs lost. Blame Obama Care! The bar owner is going to take advantage of Obama Care’s focus on in-home healthcare, and she’s going to start an in-home healthcare service.
Kansas: In McPherson a major food processor, Nation Pizza and Foods, ending operations. As many as 195 jobs lost!
Maryland: In Baltimore, after 25 years Video American shutdown.
Massachusetts: In Holyoke, the Geriatric Authority nursing home shutting down due to money problems. They’ve already laid off 15 healthcare workers. The state Department of Public Health will fund the nursing home until it is shutdown.
Michigan: The South Haven Community Hospital shutdown its birthing unit, 19 jobs lost.
Minnesota: In Marshall, Kmart announced they will shutdown in July, 57 jobs lost.
Montana: In Missoula, nonprofit Project Vote Smart laid off six employees without notice. Some of those employees had just moved in from other states. Project Vote Smart officials said it has become too “expensive” to conduct their political science research.
New York: In Buffalo, after 80 years (and surviving the Great Depression) Radio Equipment Corporation shutdown. A loyal customer blamed the shutdown on the new “disposable world”. In Rochester, Eastman Kodak laying off 35 employees in June. In Brooklyn, Voila Sweets shutting down in June, 72 jobs lost.
North Carolina: In Wilmington, after 32 years Teacher’s Aid shutdown. The owner of the education supply store blamed the past five years of declining sales.
Ohio: Grocery store Giant Eagle shutting down two stores, one in Toledo, one in Rossford. 179 jobs will be lost in May! Company officials say there are too many grocery stores in the U.S.
Pennsylvania: In Pittsburg, God refuses to stop the Catholic Church from shutting down three churches. King of Prussia based Money Centers of America now chapter 11 bankrupt busted! The electronic payment processor for casinos is fighting court actions that could cost it more than $10-million. In West Manchester Township, Voith Hydro eliminating 90 jobs. They said demand for hydroelectric equipment is falling.
South Carolina: In Richmond, the Piggly Wiggly grocery store shutdown, 37 jobs lost.
Texas: In Dallas, Japan based Sony shutting down a distribution center, it’s connected to the massive layoff announcement made in California the week prior. In Marshall, after 20 years The Diamond Store shutdown. In Tyler, after 85 years Gulf State Lumber shutdown. The business survived the Great Depression, but not this so called ‘great recession’: “Tyler used to be immune to a recession, and to me this last, I call it the great recession, really has hurt our business.”-Sam Wolf, great great grandson of Gulf State Lumber’s founder
Washington DC: California based tax sucker Bechtel laying off 117 workers as it ends the first phase of the Silver Line commuter rail service.
West Virginia: Wetzel County Hospital laid off eight healthcare workers, cut the hours of 11 others, and will not fill vacant positions. Hospital officials blamed Obama Care for shifting focus to outpatient care.
Wisconsin: Grocery store Supervalu shut down their Pleasant Prairie regional office, 155 jobs lost! Another 200 jobs will be eliminated across the country!
20 – 21 March 2014: 13-thousand + teaching jobs being killed?
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.
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