Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Career Trends used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to create their top ten list of U.S. industries destroying U.S. jobs: Nondurable Goods makers, Durable Goods makers, Transportation-warehousing-utilities, Mining-Logging, Real Estate (what housing market recovery?), Retail, Hotel-Food Service, Business (legal, medical, etc) Service, Construction, and the number one job killing industry is Arts-entertainment-recreation.
Alabama: In Shelby County, Jesse Creek Mines eliminating 170 jobs due to the crashing coal market!
California: American Medical Response shutting down their Modesto billing center in February, laying off the final 47 remaining employees, in total 330 jobs were eliminated! 
Cupertino based Apple is drastically cutting production of its new iPhones by 30%! This is causing the factory in China to conduct mass layoffs, and forced the city of Zhengzhou to pump $12.6-million USD into the factory to minimize the impact. Apple stocks lost 24% of their value from last year! It turns out that sales of the new Apple iPhones are not as great as what the mainstream news media was reporting!
Connecticut: In New Canaan, after six years popular Chicken Joe’s restaurant shutdown by astronomical rent.
Delaware: In Dover, 94 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) jewelry store Forney’s shutdown without warning, local news reports say the owners refuse to explain why. 
More job killing by DuPont, this time 2-hundred highly educated people (many with doctorates) at the Central Research and Development division at the Experimental Station in Wilmington now unemployed: “As part of this restructuring, we are redesigning the existing Central Research & Development operating model to assess and seed new, transformational science-based ventures as the next step in the evolution of corporately funded R&D for DuPont.”
Georgia: In Rome, Ohio based clothing store Express shutting down their Mount Berry Mall store by the end of the month, no reason given.
Florida: After two years The Juice Spot in the Brickell area of Miami shutting down. There are signs the owners, the LeBron James family, is hurting for cash as the basketball star sold his Miami mansion in August for $13.4-million USD.
Illinois: State tax administrators are holding back on tax refunds until at least March claiming it’s their way of preventing tax fraud, however, it’s more likely because Illinois is financially broke! God refuses to stop the shutdown of three of ‘his’ Christian schools; Saint Agatha Catholic Academy, Saint Peter elementary and Seton Academy. It’s blamed on The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.
Kansas: New York based clothier Ann Taylor shutting down their Wichita store by the end of the month, publicly/officially refusing to say why. State administrators shutting down the Cheney Lake Marina by February. The state is forcing the operators of 17 years out and placing the marina store up for contract bidding. The operators say they were not given a reason but were told they could bid on the new contract, but bidding won’t start until they’ve vacated the property.
Maryland: The Baltimore School Board approved the shutdown of four schools; Westside Elementary School, Maritime Industries Academy High School, Baltimore Community High School and the Maryland Academy of Technology & Health Sciences. The school board is considering shutting down a fifth school as well. The shutdowns are blamed on poor academic performance and what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome. Baltimore County Public Schools shutdown Deep Creek junior high school due to lack of heating.
New Jersey: Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), a group forcing homosexuals into heterosexual lifestyles, shutdown by lawsuits brought by former clients who said the ‘conversion’ therapy didn’t work!
New York: NYC based Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings revealed they laid off employees but refused to say how many. The convicted fraudster Martha Stewart reportedly gave the employees the bad news herself. The layoffs are connected to the fact that Martha Stewart no longer owns her namesake, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is now owned by Sequential Brands Group.
North Carolina: In Raleigh, after less than ten years restaurant The Borough shutting down, the owner saying she has to sell it.
Ohio: In Columbus, after only one year the Bosco Lanes bowling alley suddenly shutdown. The operators blame a surprise eviction notice by the greedy landlord, describing it as “…some extremely shady circumstances….threats have been made…” The Ohio Health Nelsonville Medical and Emergency Services facility shutdown their emergency room operations earlier than expected. Administrators blame ObamaCare for forcing 80% of customers to go to urgent care operations instead.
Oklahoma: After 105 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) iconic elitist Miss Jackson’s upscale retail store in Tulsa shutdown, word is it was no longer “sustainable” in the new economic reality. God refuses to stop ‘his’ bankrupt busted Teen Mania Christian recruitment op from shutting down due to massive debt and legal problems.
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia eliminating at least three jobs as part of the magazine’s restructuring. In State College, Callao Cafe shutting down due to the owner’s health problems.
Texas: Retailer Macy’s shutting down their Ridgmar Mall department store. 
Local news sources reporting that the city of Houston lost more than 60-thousand oil jobs since April 2014, and is expected to lose another 30-thousand oil jobs in 2016! And what housing market recovery? Despite crashing employment the cost of housing in Houston is still so high that there is an exodus of young people from the city: “Too many young people are living outside Houston because they can’t find housing in this city.”-Sylvester Turner, mayor of Houston
Virginia: Capco Machinery Systems suddenly laid off 40 employees on New Year’s Eve and shutdown, no warning or explanation. The shutdown was revealed by former employees who went to local news media, Capco administrators refused to comment. Local news reports say the company announced expansion plans in 2013, even began excavating ground for a new building, but suddenly stopped. County administrators even offer tax breaks to restart the expansion, but nothing happened. In Roanoke, WDBJ television station was sold-off. WDBJ is the TV station that saw two reporters killed, by a former employee, live on TV. The once Indiana owned WDBJ is now owned by a company out of Georgia. As a former local TV news producer I can tell you that TV station takeovers always involve people losing their jobs.
Washington: In Bellingham, God refuses to stop ‘his’ bible software company Faithlife Corporation from laying off 60 Christians, due to declining demand for their Logo software.
Washington DC: A new law secretly passed last year gives the federal tax collector (Internal Revenue Service, IRS) and the Department of State the power to prevent you from leaving the country if you owe $50-thousand USD or more in taxes.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
04 – 05 January 2016: “It’s part of our new business model…” Idaho hit with skyrocketing poor U.S. migrants!
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”