Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
More proof you can’t blame the internet for brick-n-mortar shutdowns: After four years sexist women’s open source developer The Ada Initiative shutting down in October. It’s blamed on their inability to find an executive director who meets their feminist agenda.
California: In San Diego, after one year Table No 10 shutdown without warning, local news sources could not find out why. In Placer County, the shutdown of an outdated sewer treatment plant resulted in nine people losing their jobs.
Connecticut: In Norwalk, after 30 years non-profit Founders’ Cottage shutting down due to the Department of Developmental Services reducing taxpayer funding.
Florida: Boca Raton based Office Depot is about to be taken over by Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples, but regardless administrators just announced they will shutdown 4-hundred more Office Depot stores by the end of 2016! They blame a 10% drop in sales. Office Depot has been shutting down stores for several years now, at the pace of less than 1-hundred per year. The 133 years old (surviving the Great Deflationary Depression and numerous recession) First Presbyterian Church of Sanford shutdown due to The Rapture, I mean lack of members. At one time there were 1-thousand members, now there’s only 27!
Hawaii: The Molokai Landfill reducing operating hours due to lack of qualified employees!
Illinois: News reports say gov’na Bruce Rauner will eliminate 120 taxpayer funded jobs in September! Fifth Third Bank shutting down their Evanston office as part of their bigger plan to get rid of 130 offices across the U.S.
Indiana: In Fort Wayne, Sports and Spirits bar has been shutdown by state & county administrators for allegedly (never proven in court) being involved in violence and drug trafficking. The anti-6th & 7th Amendment Fort Wayne ‘Judge Dredd’ Police Captain Kevin Hunter is giddy: “I’m very pleased. We felt very strongly we had a good case. It’s been a problem bar for many years and we agree with the commission’s decision.”
Maine: Child prison Mountain View Youth Development Center, in Charleston, laying off 1-hundred people! It’s good news because the layoffs are being blamed on a lack of child prisoners. In Freeport, S&S Seafood shutting down due to a crash in supplies of clams. At one time they were handling more than 1-million pounds per year, but now barely 300-thousand pounds are brought in. The owner sold the property and is moving to Florida.
Massachusetts: Comcast-Xfinity cable announced it is shutting down its Attleboro office this month. In Waltham, the Greene Pool shutdown without warning. City administrators blame safety problems.
Nebraska: Washington based Apogee Retail shutting down their Columbus call center, 3-hundred jobs lost: “Obviously that’s a lot of people. It will affect a lot of people in a negative way.”-David Bell, Columbus Economic Council
News reports say at one time Apogee had 6-hundred employees in Columbus.
New Hampshire: A Rockingham County Superior Court judge shutdown two Liquid Planet Water Park slides because the Department of Environmental Services says they are infected with deadly bacteria. Mount Washington College (formerly known as Hesser College) shutdown suddenly due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome. 3-hundred students must now transfer to Kaplan University.
New Jersey: In Jersey City the Thessalonians Community Outreach Church’s food pantry losing its lease. It feeds at least 2-hundred people per month (open twice per week), it’s hoped they can find a new location.
New Mexico: As part of ongoing store shutdowns, Pier 1 Imports is shutting down their Albuquerque store on San Mateo NE.
New York: Battery Park City Parks Conservancy is shutting down, 125 jobs lost by the end of October!
North Carolina: Pitt County Schools eliminated 25 jobs, without warning. It’s blamed on crashing taxpayer funding (which is a sure sign of a crashing economy).
North Dakota: ObamaCare forced BlueCross BlueShield to eliminate 73 jobs. Because of ObamaCare the insurance company lost the North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System contract.
Oregon: The Fenrir restaurant shutdown. News reports claim the owners are looking for a new location. After three years the Jamison restaurant shutdown. The owners blamed escalating operating costs.
Pennsylvania: In West Chester, Flextronics International is shutting down, 90 jobs lost in time for Xmas. In Philadelphia, God refuses to stop ‘his’ Saint Joseph’s University from shutting down, 172 jobs lost by the end of September!
Tennessee: The Jackson YMCA shutting down next week, 15 jobs lost. Administrators blame a history of losing money.
Texas: Silverleaf Resorts issued a WARN saying 203 people across the Lone State State will become jobless by the end of September! EZCorp is getting out of the payday loan scam, I mean business, and will layoff 98 people in Austin. News reports say EZCorp is now focusing on its pawn shop business.
West Virginia: More than 1-thousand people losing their jobs due to the collapsing coal industry! Patriot Coal is shutting down and selling off five coal mines!
Wisconsin: Iron Mountain Trap Rock Company shutting down their Chippewa Sand operations, the final 58 employees being laid off this Friday. The shutdown is due to customer Silica Superior Sands canceling all future orders. Back in May, Chippewa Sand Transport laid off at least 55 employees due to crashing oil industry demand. The new owners of The Sportsman Channel shutting down its New Berlin HQ, 10 jobs lost by October.
03 August 2015: God joins exodus from New York
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.”