What automotive industry recovery? Bermuda based business insurance company Hiscox surveyed mom-n-pop businesses across the United States. Mom-n-pop auto repair shops are being hit hardest by the lack of economic recovery, 56% say they will be forced to shutdown between now and 2020!
Failed State Alabama: Video Warehouse shutting down their Dothan store. In August they shutdown their Ozark store.
Arizona: In Phoenix, Paz Cantina being shutdown by property developers who want to build an apartment complex.
California: Irvine based newspapers, websites and mobile applications operator Freedom Communications now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. In Costa Mesa, after 66 years Grant Boy’s outdoor supply (including guns, oh my!) store shutdown.
Connecticut: After 65 years Chick’s Drive Inn Seafood Restaurant shutting down as requested by the now deceased owner.
Failed State Florida: Dade Medical College shutdown all its campuses without warning, thousands of students and hundreds of employees out in the cold! Basically school administrators realized they are flat broke (for numerous reasons)!
Georgia: In Athens, Vision Video shutting down their Homewood Hills store. At one time there were three Vision Video stores in Athens, now they’ll be just one.
Idaho: Evil property renters are jacking up rents on farmers! The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Survey says the cost to rent non-irrigated farmland in The Gem State has gone up to $158 USD per acre (0.4 hectare), a 5% increase from 2014 to 2015. Irrigated farmland hit $208 per acre, an 8% increase! However, it was revealed that rent for farmland with a pivot irrigation system and strong water rights access was going for as much as $350 per acre! Here’s another whammy against farmers; the USDA said many of the current rental contracts were signed when commodity prices were high, this means farmers are actually paying rent so they can lose even more money for what they grow!
Failed State Illinois: What automotive industry recovery? News reports say heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar began eliminating more jobs at its Decatur factory. Back in May they eliminated 150 jobs at their Decatur factory!
Expect Less, Pay More?
Indiana: Retailer Target shutting down their Anderson store after Xmas.
Failed State Iowa: The state National Guard shutting down and selling off their Corning armory. News reports say it’s the 13th state militia armory to be shutdown. Retailer Target shutting down their Ottumwa store after Xmas.
Massachusetts: GE (General Electric) Oil & Gas shutting down their Avon valve factory and moving it to Florida, 3-hundred jobs lost by mid-2016! California based computer chip maker Intel eliminating 175 jobs from its Hudson factory, starting January 2016! At one time the Hudson factory employed 7-hundred people!
Michigan: Advertising agency Doner Partners eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs due to the loss of their JCPenney contract.
Minnesota: Retailer Target shutting down their New Ulm store after Xmas.
New Hampshire: Nashua Corporation shutting down its Merrimack paper mill in April 2016, 53 jobs lost.
Failed State New Jersey: In Montvale, after 90 years the DePiero family says they were forced by skyrocketing operating costs to sell-off their farm and market to evil property developers.
Failed State New York: Yet more layoffs in the video game industry, this time 12 New Yorkers lost their jobs with Avalanche Studios. In Brighton, Mario’s Italian Restaurant shutting down before Xmas, blaming ongoing property development by commercial property developers. In Hamburg, Tina’s Italian Kitchen shutting down before Xmas. Sentry Safe issued a shutdown WARN for their Rochester factory, 301 jobs lost by June 2016! Administrators told state employment weenie heads that they’re getting the hell outta the Empire State and moving to Mexico! Aluminum giant Alcoa shutting down its Massena smelting ops, 487 jobs lost!
North Carolina: After 18 years Tír na nÓg pub shutting down before Thanksgiving.
Ohio: Century Aluminum suddenly announced it is killing 150 jobs as it shuts down a ‘pot line’ at its Sebree smelter! It was also revealed that last month Century Aluminum eliminated 350 jobs when it shutdown its Hawesville smelter! They blame competition from China.
Pennsylvania: (more proof ‘mericans are a bunch of legal drug addicts) Hatboro based mail order drugs pusher Philidor RX Services shutting down within 90 days, 630 jobs around the country will be lost because of accusations of improper tracking of drugs shipped for another drugs pusher Valeant Pharmaceuticals! After 37 years the owners of Mandy’s Place pizza joint blame escalating crime for why they shutdown: “I sit at night and I worry that if that phone rings, this time somebody got shot…..Nobody held the meeting! They [mayor’s office] went on media and said they would and it never happened.”-Steve Negri, owner
South Carolina: Mother Nature (flooding) and lack of sales are being blamed for the layoff of 17 employees at the events center known as Cypress Gardens.
Washington: After 30 years Yakima Tropical Fish and Pet Village shutting down. The Yakima Police K-9 unit will be hardest hit as for the past 15 years the pet shop donated 2-hundred pounds of dog food every month to feed the police dogs! Aluminum giant Alcoa shutting down two smelting ops in Ferndale and Wenatchee. It’s part of the company’s plan to eliminate 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs!
Washington DC: News reports say National Geographic magazine is asking employees to take voluntary buyouts, or retire early, or be laid off outright. This comes two months after the iconic magazine sold its soul to evil Rupert Murdoch!
Wisconsin: Retailer Target shutting down their Superior store after Xmas.
30-31 October 2015: “we need…to be growing…that is not happening”
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.”