The Bank of England is warning that in the near future robots (automation) will take away 80-million jobs from U.S. citizens!

Failed State Alabama: After 65 years Capitol Book & News shutdown: “…to earn a living out of a retail bookstore….it’s hard these days. It’s hard to be little. It’s hard to be independent. Just think about all of the people who have gone out of business.We used to make jokes, like people do, that some day they’re going to have to carry us out of here feet first. I told that joke one day, and it wasn’t funny anymore.”-Thomas Upchurch, co-owner

California:  San Diego based drug testing lab Millennium Health now bankrupt busted after being caught ripping off Medicare.  Florida based General Mills Restaurants suddenly shutdown their San Diego Yard House restaurant, 110 people jobless!  In Costa Mesa, after publicly blaming the greedy landlord Scott’s Restaurant finally issued a shutdown WARN saying 106 people will become unemployed by the beginning of January 2016! In Studio City, Grill Concepts restaurant is shutting down by January 2016, 49 jobs lost, however the operators claim it will be temporary.  In Los Angeles, restaurant Greystone Manor issued a shutdown WARN saying 61 people will become unemployed by January 2016, however they claim it’s temporary.  In Bakersfield, Golden State Drilling issued a WARN saying 104 people will be laid off by the beginning of December!  Penske Logistics issued two WARNs saying 60 people will become jobless right before Thanksgiving.  Tax-sucking defense contractor Microsemi eliminating 57 jobs in Garden Grove,  by the beginning of January 2016.  Tax-sucker Boeing issued more layoff WARNs adding another 66 layoffs to the hundreds already announced.   In Sun Valley, JC Entertainment Lighting Services issued a mass layoff WARN saying 169 people will be laid off by the beginning of January 2016!  In San Jose, Cisco Systems continues to kill jobs, this time 126 employees were laid off!  In Santa Clara, Pennsylvania based Vishay Intertechnology announced they will eliminate 292 jobs by March 2016!  They are moving jobs to other countries, calling it “…moving headcounts into lower cost geographies.”  More proof brick-n-mortar stores can’t blame the internet, San Francisco based HotelTonight reservation app laid off 34 people.   

Colorado: British empire Canada based Kinross Gold shutting down their Denver office, eliminating 110 jobs!   

Idaho:  After six years in Pocatello Cynthia Louise Boutique shutdown.  The owner is focusing on her Christian ministry to female prisoners.

Iowa: In Shell Rock, farm equipment maker Unverferth Manufacturing laid off about 48 people, blaming low sales.  In Davenport, after 66 years Riefe’s Family Restaurant shutting down right before Xmas.

Kentucky:  AK Steel jacked up the number of people to become unemployed after December from 940 to 1-thousand 1-hundred!  They blame cheap imported steel (which is an excuse I’ve heard since the 1980s).  Ferus Natural Gas Fuels shutdown their Jenkins plant without warning, laying off at least 20 people. 

Maine: Payment processor WEX eliminating 80 jobs in South Portland.

Minnesota: In Minneapolis, after 17 years Chiang Mai Thai restaurant shutting down right before Xmas.  The owners did not want to renew the lease.

Failed State New Jersey: In Florham Park, Germany based BASF issued a WARN saying 92 people will be laid off by mid-January 2016.  East Orange General Hospital now bankrupt busted despite its pending $84-million USD sale, 860 jobs threatened!

New Mexico: Oil service company Baker Hughes Pressure Pumping suddenly shutdown their fracking ops in Farmington and laid off 67 people.

Failed State New York:  Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing EmblemHealth Services to issue a shutdown WARN for their NYC Claims Processing office, 101 jobs lost by February 2016!  In Rochester, Sweden based medical tech Getinge Sourcing announced 52 layoffs by January 2016.  In Staten Island, after 44 years iconic Mandolin Brothers guitar shop shutting down when the inventory is gone.

North Dakota: In Fargo, after 13 years Monte’s Downtown restaurant shutting down after Xmas, blaming competition.

Ohio:  Hyundai Ideal Electric eliminating 56 jobs in January 2016.

Pennsylvania: In Lancaster, American Axle & Manufacturing revealed it laid off 11 employees back in August.   Trib Total Media eliminating 133 jobs (the WARNs say 133, news reports say 153) between Xmas and mid-January 2016!  In West Mifflin, after 25 years Levin Furniture shutdown after the landlord made a deal with Lowe’s.  After 29 years Distelfink Bakery shutdown without warning: “We were struggling, and thought we had come to an agreement with attorneys and with the landlord, to stay current … plus pay the back rent.  In the meantime, they went to court and got a judgment against us.”-Kate Berger, co-owner

South Carolina: 95 years old (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Moe Levy’s Reliable Loan and Pawn Shop shutting down because the lease will not be renewed due the rent being jacked up.

Texas: ObamaCare forcing TAPS medical transportation in Wichita Falls to shutdown after Thanksgiving.  In Corpus Christi, after surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions Braslau’s Fine Home Furnishings shutting down when the inventory is gone.

Washington DC:  Education tech company Blackboard laid off an undisclosed number of employees.  News reports guesstimate 1-hundred people lost their jobs! 

Wisconsin: What automotive industry recovery?  Racine based transmission maker Twin Disc laid off 15 people and announced pay cuts and work furloughs for everybody else in order to save $4.3-million USD!    Rockwell Automation warned of 255 layoffs in 2016, saying “…we believe we’ll see a slowing of the economy.”  

08-09 November 2015: “It is a bummer…we can’t keep going.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.”