Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alaska: The University of Alaska Anchorage eliminating 203 jobs! Administrators blame $13-million USD in taxpayer funding cuts caused by the crashing oil industry.
California: More proof the internet is not recession proof. San Francisco based food delivery internet company Good Eggs ending operations in all cities except San Francisco, 140 jobs lost!
Connecticut: The federal tax-sucking Constitution State announced it will eliminate 95 jobs due to crashing federal taxpayer funding.
Georgia: Valdosta State University eliminating 33 jobs, blaming what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome., a 17% drop since 2011
Illinois: Gov’na Bruce Rauner wants to shutdown the World Shooting and Recreational Complex, nine employees are being laid off in September.
Maryland: Sears Holdings announced the Parkville Kmart will shutdown by Thanksgiving, 102 jobs lost! After 21 years Parker Place antiques shutting down in September.
Michigan: Lincoln Consolidated Schools will eliminate 50 jobs and cut salaries over the next three years.
Minnesota: ObamaCare forcing BlueCross BlueShield to eliminate 450 jobs by 2019!
Missouri: Town & Country based baseball supplies maker Rawlings announced it will eliminate 2-hundred jobs at its Costa Rica factory! It’s blamed on crashing sales of baseball uniforms.
Montana: In Kalispell, after five years The Zone Family Fun Center shutting down at the end of the month. The property owner sold the land to a hospital!
New Jersey: Textiles from Europe-Victoria Classics WARNed they will layoff 14 people in Edison by the end of September.
New York: In Ithica, Felicia’s Atomic Lounge and Cupcakery shutting down at the end of the month, the owners have plans for a new restaurant. Syracuse based commercial laundry service Coyne Textile Services now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, 620 jobs threatened! In Rouses Point, drugs maker Pfizer issued a shutdown WARN for Xmas. In Herkimer, Sears Holdings forcing the ‘independent’ owner of a Sears Hometown to shutdown. In Saranac Lake, Sears Holdings forced the ‘independent’ co-owners of a Sears Hometown store to shut it down: “We wanted to keep it open. We thought there’s potential in Saranac. Sears saw it differently. They came to us and asked us to shut it down……We had big plans. We were going to renovate the place and get it looking good again.”-George Hamelin
Ohio: Sears Holdings announced the Warren Kmart on Parkman Road is shutting down in November, 68 jobs lost. PNC Bank announced it is shutting down its Campbell office in October.
Pennsylvania: In Sanatoga, after 18 years the Thriftway grocery store shutdown, administrators blame the 2014 shutdown of the next door Kmart for causing a crash in customer traffic.
South Dakota: After 34 years the Kid’s Stuff Superstore shutdown.
Texas: In the Cincinnati Entertainment District in West El Paso yet more shutdowns, including the Cincinnati Bar and Grill and the Corner Tavern. Local news reports blame high rents and low sales.
Vermont: Proof the economy is not getting better. Waterbury based coffee roaster Keurig Green Mountain announced it will eliminate 2-hundred jobs due to expected future drop in sales.
Virginia: Israel based drugs maker Teva Pharmaceuticals announced they will layoff 33 people in Forest.
Wisconsin: In Madison, after five years Catalyst athletic clothing store shutting down, the owners blame increasing competition.
04 August 2015: Office Depot to kill 400 stores!
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
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.”