Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Becker’s Hospital Review revealed that by the end of 2013 eighteen U.S. hospitals shutdown as a direct result of problems caused by the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care).
Arizona: PetsMart administrators laid off 176 people from its Phoenix HQ! News reports say the layoffs were the result of pressure from greedy A-hole investors!
California: San Jose based Adobe Systems announced it is shutting down its research & development ops in China, 300 jobs lost. Company administrators blame the government of China. International skateboarding shop FTC shutdown its Sacramento store. Apparently sales couldn’t cover the costs to operate their nine years old Sacramento store. In Irvine, Astronics Test Systems warned it will layoff 53 employees in November. In Covina, Sears Holdings warned it will shutdown Kmart 4281 in November, 92 jobs lost. In San Leandro, Sears Holdings warned it will shutdown Kmart 3276 in November, 102 jobs lost! In Redding, Tri Counties Bank warned it will layoff 74 people in October.
Florida: In Tampa, a company that was supposed to be promoting the International Indian Film Academy, Go Bollywood, is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The events promoter has only $50-thousand USD to its name, but is at least $50-million in debt! In Lake Mary, Digital Risk killed off 33 finance and insurance jobs. It’s part of the “Risk, Compliance and Transaction Management Solutions” company’s plans to kill off a total of 745 jobs in 2014! In Saint Petersburg, Obama Care forcing the nearly 40 years old Edward White Hospital to shutdown in November, 363 jobs affected! Hospital administrators blame the federal government for slashing funding, and pro-insurance industry Obama Care for causing a drop in customers.
Illinois: In Alton, a Dairy Queen shutdown. The franchise owners said sales were so bad it wasn’t worth it to renew their franchise license.
Indiana: Sears Holdings double punches The Hoosier State as it announced the shutdown of two Kmart stores; one in Fort Wayne and one in Decatur. At least 118 people will become unemployed in December!
Maine: 110+ years old (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Great Northern Paper (GNP) now chapter 7 bankrupt busted, after shutting down operations. Chapter 7 usually means the company is officially dead. Company administrators tried to catch the interest of new investors, but apparently nobody wants to invest in paper making companies.
Maryland: In Hagerstown, Sheetz Fresh Food Made to Order shutdown.
Massachusetts: In Leominster, Obama Care forced HealthAlliance Hospital to kill off 18 jobs. Crashing patient referrals caused by Obama Care, and a referring hospital, forced Radius Specialty Hospital to warn that it must shutdown two rehabilitation facilities, 350 healthcare jobs lost!
Michigan: Sears Holdings announced the killing of 610 jobs in December, as they shutdown five Kmart stores (Burton, Flint, Madison Heights, Port Huron and Rochester)!
Nevada: In Sparks, space tech company Sierra Nevada laid off 100 employees “As a result of not being selected by NASA, SNC needed to conduct a limited staff reduction of our Dream Chaser team of the personnel that have come on board in anticipation of the growth a win would have provided.”
New Jersey: Drug pusher Regado Biosciences laid off 20 employees, due to the failure of its latest anticoagulant. Due to the massive loss of tax revenues from four huge casinos that shutdown (about ten thousand people laid off as a result!) Atlantic City warned of massive layoffs itself. City administrators say they must demand unionized workers take a huge reduction in pay, as well. Standard & Poor’s downgraded Atlantic City’s credit rating to BBB-plus.
New Mexico: Sears Holdings announced the Rio Rancho Kmart will be shutdown in December (59 jobs lost), leaving only one Kmart store in the city of Albuquerque, which once had three Kmart stores.
New York: In Binghamton, anti-2nd Amendment Pepsi warned it will shutdown their bottling factory in November, 74 jobs lost. In the same city dairy distributor HP Hood also warned they will shutdown in November, 32 jobs lost. In Wolcott, Electromark-Brady Corporation warned it will shutdown by December, 84 jobs lost. God refuses to stop Obama Care(?) from shutting down the Convent of Mary the Queen nursing home. Christian leaders say they will shut it down by June 2015 (healthcare layoffs will begin in December), and shift many of the residents to a Jewish nursing home.
North Carolina: In Gastonia, God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Christian bookstore Mary’s Garden Catholic Books and Gifts. The owners said sales crashed in 2008, and never recovered. They take it as a sign from God, to get out while the gettin’s good.
Ohio: United Airlines killing 100 more jobs! This time at Port Columbus International airport. The unionized jobs are being replaced with cheap-ass contract workers. News reports say the contract workers will be paid just barely more than minimum wage, and probably at part time with no benefits (thank you Obama Care!).
South Carolina: In Mrytle Beach, the North Kings Highway Kmart shutting down in December, 59 jobs lost.
Tennessee: In Dickson, Sears Holdings announced they will shutdown the Kmart in November, 65 jobs lost.
Washington: One Reel announced that revenues from this year’s music and arts festival were so bad that “In an ongoing effort to adapt to ever-changing circumstances and evolve Bumbershoot to best serve Seattle, One Reel is temporarily reducing its staff to core personnel for Q4.”
Wisconsin: The Janesville Kmart being shutdown in December, 70 jobs lost.
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.