U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 11 – 12 August 2014: Illinois gets slammed, again! 84% increase in rent killing off small shops! Disney continues to kill jobs! No more Jelly Belly?

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Despite increased package deliveries, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported a $2-billion USD loss for their fiscal 3rd quarter!

California: In Glendale, Disney killed off 16 jobs at their Disney Toons studios.  In San Francisco, Therapy Home thrift store killed off by an 84% hike in their rent!  British empire military contractor and U.S. taxsucker BAE laid off another employee.  Freight company RAD Harvest killing 81 jobs in October.

Illinois: In Romeoville, cable TV company Comcast announced they will kill 112 jobs in September!  In Arlington Heights, tech company Intuit killing 104 jobs in September!  What housing market recovery?   In Chicago, real estate company Equity Office Management laying off 48 employees in September.  We Clean Maintenance & Supplies killing 107 jobs!  Geralex Janitorial Services laying off 67 workers.  RJB Properties making 41 employees unemployed.  After 100 years (and surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Jelly Belly Candy laying off 66 employees as the company moves its Illinois operations to California.  In Champaign, Kraft Foods laid off an additional 56 employees.  In East Moline, Jacobson Warehouse laying off 137 people in September!

Indiana:  Obama Care killed off yet another hospital.  This time Monroe Hospital is chapter 11 bankrupt busted and up for sale!  But it’s not all Obama Care’s fault, hospital officials also blame the greedy property owners.

Maine: Great Northern Paper announced that their “temporary” job layoffs are now “permanent”, 212 jobs lost!  Great Northern Paper shutdown their East Millinocket factory in February, and city officials say the company still owes them $700-thousand in taxes!   And in Bath, USN ship builder and taxsucker Bath Iron Works continues to kill jobs, this time 40 people now unemployed.

Maryland: What housing market recovery?  In Rockville, RoundPoint Mortgage laid off 68 employees.

New Jersey: In Washington, after 60 years McCormick’s Bicycle shutdown.

New Mexico: What housing market recovery?  The Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors says July 2014 homes sale crashed 12.35% from July 2013!  However, the average sale price went up by 3.7%.

New York: In Vestal, Obama Care forcing Practicare Medical Management to kill 76 healthcare jobs in November.

Oklahoma: In Oklahoma City, Homeland grocery store shutting down a second store, this time 55 jobs will be lost: “…we could not justify expending capital in this store.”

Texas: In Austin, tech start up facilitator Conjunctured warning it could shutdown.  It might have something to do with their rent.   El Lago Mexican Foods canceled their plans to expand operations and shutdown, even though they were offered tax incentives: “…since we had to move from our old time location in central Austin, we are having big issues to go back in business. We are still trying to get the company up and running again soon. Thank you again and keep your fingers cross.”-company statement

Virginia: Reston based cell phone service provider NII about to be chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  The company offers Nextel service in Latin American countries, but is losing its ass to competition simply because it can’t (or wont) upgrade its download speeds.

08-10 August 2014

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 shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security…That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013