Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: The city of Hartselle laid off three employees, blaming the the iconic taxpayer subsidized TVA. Taxsucker Document and Packaging Brokers (Docupak) lost a major contract with the National Guard Bureau and will kill an undisclosed amount of jobs. Birmingham based Simply Fashion has taken over New York based bankrupt busted Dots women clothing retailer. Dots had already shutdown 400 stores! Simply Fashion claims they will re-open 120 Dots stores.
Arkansas: Obama Care was the final straw that killed off the Crittenden Regional Hospital and clinic system! However, there are charges that administrators mismanaged the healthcare system, lawsuits and possible criminal charges are pending. In Marion, Texas based Clark Freight Lines shutdown. Company officials say there are too many trucking companies to compete with.
California: In Cayucos, after more than 20 years highly praised Hoppe’s Garden Bistro shutdown. In Palo Alto, Disney killing off more jobs, this time 55 Disney Interactive employees were laid off. In Sunnyvale, Aruba Networks killed off 116 jobs! In Los Angeles, healthcare management company Precyse Solutions warned they will kill 61 jobs in November. Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital killing 120 healthcare jobs! Hospital administrators say insurance written Obama Care (Affordable Car Act) is forcing them to cut back in the name of being “efficient”. However, like frogs in a boiling pot, it’s obvious that the ignorant healthcare workers are still oblivious to what Obama Care is doing to them, instead blaming the hospital for reducing access to medical care: “There’s no way they can propose this plan without threatening patient care!”-Damian Tryon, California Nurses Association
Florida: After 24 years elitist residential Marcus Pointe Golf Club announced they’re shutting down in time for Xmas.
Illinois: In Palantine, after 14 years non-profit cancer center Wellness Place shutdown. Officials blame the bad economy for reduced donations.
Indiana: Trucking company Talon Logistics Services announced they will kill 60 jobs in September.
Iowa: In Sioux City, after 85 years (and surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) the Green Gables restaurant shutdown. The family owners say they cannot survive this so called ‘recovery’.
Kentucky: T-shirt shop Cafe Press shutdown their store in the Mall Saint Matthews.
Nebraska: In Omaha, McKenna’s Blues Booze and BBQ shutdown.
New Mexico: According to the New Mexico Hospital Association (NMHA) Obama Care is destroying access to healthcare! 20 of New Mexico’s 44 hospitals have killed jobs and cut services as a direct result of insurance payment reductions mandated by Obama Care: “…. key services are being eroded around the state at the very time when services are needed to respond to the growing demand resulting from coverage expansion.”-Jeff Dye, NMHA
New Jersey: Atlantic City is blaming the massive casino shutdowns for forcing them to kill off 300 city jobs!
New York: In NYC, Food Emporium #36-719 shutting down in November, 76 jobs lost. Due to Obama Care Eastern Niagara Hospital ceased its inpatient care services at its Newfane hospital, and ceased its ER ops at its Lockport hospital, 185 jobs lost as a result! Hospital administrators say they’ve lost $1.7-million USD since Obama Care went into effect!
North Carolina: Dosher Memorial Hospital now asking that all healthcare workers who’re 60 years of age and had five years of employment, to take early retirement! If that’s not enough they’ll be forced to outright layoff healthcare workers. Hospital officials blame the bad economy made worse by reduced insurance payments due to Obama Care. Administrators with giant Vidant Health are directly blaming Obama Care for crashing revenues, which are forcing them to kill 175 healthcare jobs! Vidant Health runs eight hospitals in-state and was planning on spending $128-million for upgrades, but officials say if the Obama Care insurance payments reductions get worse then the upgrades are off.
Ohio: The Buckeye State lost 12400 jobs in July!
Pennsylvania: After 31 years all Fun Party Stores being shut down! Once there were five, but now none. Fun Party Stores joins a competing party store chain which shutdown three stores, in all eight party stores shutdown over an eight months period! The owners of Fun Party blames ‘big box’ stores and the internet (even though many ‘big box’ stores are shutting down ops, and internet businesses are suffering crashing revenues as well. After all, Fun Party could sell on the internet as well). The oldest public library in the United States, the Darby Free Library, warned it could shutdown due to state taxpayer funding cuts. Library officials say the funding cuts come at a time when their costs of operations are skyrocketing. The library was built in 1743!
Texas: Denmark based Maersk Oil revealed they killed off 215 jobs! Company officials basically said the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t have the oil that it was first thought to have, and they’ve lost money on trying to extract it. Houston based Waste Management warned of massive job cuts across the country. The hazardous waste mis-management company is facing $2-billion in fines for failing to properly manage dioxins!
Washington: More proof the internet is not killing brick-n-mortar stores. Social media company Simply Measured laid off 15 employees, just five months after getting $20-million from venture capitalists. Washington state’s Employment Security Department killing off 149 jobs in October!
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.
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