Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

California:  More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Mountain View based blabbing application (chat app) Tango laid off about 50 employees.  Tango administrators also said they will rent out office space at its HQ to other companies, in an effort to raise cash. 

Delaware: Another fine example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs (REL); the massive layoffs by DuPont has ruined the credit ratings of several counties and the state itself.  Lower credit ratings for local governments could result in government layoffs: “As credit ratings deteriorate, governments are going to have pay a little more to borrow. That’s money that comes out of your revenue, taking away from other projects you could spend the money on.”-James Butkiewicz, University of Delaware Economics Department

Idaho: In Boise, after 47 years the restaurant Ben’s Crow Inn Tavern shutting down after being sold-off, due to the owner’s health problems.  Reports say the new owner is going to build an apartment complex.  More proof the real ‘christian god’ is money; ‘christian’ run Saint Luke’s Health has agreed to return revenues from two hospitals to the respective tax districts.  The privately funded hospital system took over management of the taxpayer funded McCall and Mountain Home hospitals over the past six years and, according to the state Attorney General, was keeping the tax revenues for themselves in violation of the law.    An Idaho Statesman investigation also revealed that the two dominant ‘christian’ run hospital chains, Saint Alphonsus and Saint Luke’s, control $793-million USD worth of property that are tax-exempt, and that’s just the 1-hundred properties they own in Ada County!  (more in The truth about Idaho hospital taxes)

Kansas: In Topeka, the manager of the Simply Amish furniture store said it is shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone.  The owner of the store was not answering phone calls from local news media. Perhaps they’re Simply Broke?

Michigan:  It’s been revealed that Southfield based Bagger Dave’s burger joint shutdown 11 restaurants across Michigan and Indiana in 2015.  One of those restaurants was only ten months old. Bagger Dave’s is controlled by Diversified Restaurant Holdings.

Mississippi: Bankrupt Hancock Fabrics warning that it could be forced to shutdown its HQ, resulting in hundreds of layoffs by mid-March!

New Jersey: Sussex County Community College eliminating 20 full time jobs due to crashing enrollments.

New York:  In New Hartford, after six years the Sav-A-Lot grocery store shutting down by the end of the week.  The only notice is a sign taped to the front door.

Oregon: Rough & Ready Lumber announced a third round of layoffs in the past two years.  60 people will lose their jobs over the next few weeks, this time due to a shortage of trees!

Pennsylvania: What automotive industry recovery? Japan based Hitachi Metals Automotive Components (HMAC) shutting down their Wellsboro factory by the end of the year, at least 1-hundred jobs lost!  The company is consolidating operations.

Texas:  Administrators of bankrupt Sherwin Alumina trying to sell-off their operations in Gregory, if no buyer is found then it’ll be shutdown in March.  924 jobs lost!   

Virginia:  More proof the real ‘christian god’ is money; in Ruther Glen, donation funded ‘christian’ run Cinderella’s Closet shutting down in mid-March.  The operators of the charity prom dress ministry said they need to quit, and nobody else wanted to take over the operation.  Dresses are being given away, and anything left over will go to Concord Baptist Church.

Washington DC: After more than 60 years law firm Dickstein Shapiro shutting down.  News reports say the firm never recovered from the recession.  Hundreds of jobs affected! 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

12 February 2016: “It’s killing me…”

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.”