Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Arizona: It’s been revealed that Waste Management is offshoring 120 U.S. jobs to India!
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech for your demise; after 57 years La Cañada Flintridge based Sport Chalet announced it is dead! Not only are they shutting down all 67 brick-n-mortar stores across nine states, but they’re halting all internet sales! Santa Clara based Intel is about to conduct another round of massive tech layoffs.
Idaho: Despite boasting of a recovering economy the self proclaimed ‘christian’ leaders of Idaho have decided they must ration the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, incorrectly called Food Stamps). Starting in July instead of getting all their food assistance on a single day, it will be spread over a ten days period, affecting 82-thousand of Idaho’s 1.5-million residents. It was revealed that this rationing of food assistance was actually ordered by state ‘elected christian lawmakers’ back in 2014! The British empire created christian Salvation Army protested the SNAP rationing by pointing out that poor Idahoans have been screwed so much by state ‘christian lawmakers’ that up to 90% of people coming into Salvation Army food banks are there to supplement the meager scraps given to them by Idaho’s SNAP! (as a single healthy unemployed adult male I can confirm that there are plenty of poor people in Idaho who don’t qualify for state controlled social programs)
This comes as Gem State ‘christian’ led Department of Labor sold its Right to Work Internet Unemployment System (ius) to the states of Iowa and Vermont! The Gem State’s version of ObamaCare, Your Health Idaho, strikes again! A Twin Falls woman is in desperate need of brain surgery but doesn’t have enough money to pay for insurance herself, yet also does not qualify for ObamaCare under Your Health Idaho! But wait, that’s not all! It turns out that when she first went to doctors they ignorantly told her she was crazy and didn’t have a physical problem! Finally, after several MRIs she was diagnosed with Chiari malformation: “If it goes untreated, then I will slowly become paralyzed, and from there I will end up on machines. That is something that is a reality for me if I don’t get it taken care of.”-Brittany Long
Illinois: In Decatur, after 114 years (surviving The Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) the Haines & Essick store shutdown. Store manager Sue Miller said they can’t compete in today’s volatile market using the business model that got them through one hundred years of sales: “It’s a hard model to have a big retail store. It’s a lot of staff, it’s a lot of expense, and it’s an old building.”
Kansas: Mission Group Kansas owned Wright Career College ceased to exist this past Friday. The chapter 7 bankruptcy shuts down campuses in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Administrators said “From our beginning in 1921 until our closure, we have always operated with the focus of putting the interests of our students first. It is unfortunate our students cannot complete their programs at Wright Career College.” However, in 2013 students sued the college saying it “purposefully enticed prospective students to enroll and apply for student loans they cannot pay back through a systematic, deceptive marketing scheme.”
Michigan: The iron ore Empire Mine shutting down, more than 3-hundred jobs lost between May and August!
New Jersey: In South Amboy, after more than 1-hundred years (surviving The Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Sacred Heart Elementary School because “…enrollment has decreased by 40 students and the subsidy required to sustain the school’s operation has risen to over a half-million dollars annually…”
New York: Presbyterian/Agnostic Warren Buffett controlled NYC based American Express began massive layoffs as part of plans to cut $1-billion USD in operating costs!
Ohio: Motion control company Parker Hannifin shutting down their Youngstown ops, 137 jobs lost to global competition and the oil industry BS!
Oregon: Albertsons-Safeway shutting down their Portland Safeway grocery store, on SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway, 53 jobs lost in May. It’s because the store is within one mile of an Albertsons.
Puerto Rico: The economy is so bad that CNN reported that one doctor per day is fleeing the U.S. territory! National Public Radio reporting that 50-thousand people flee Puerto Rico every year! You must note that Puerto Rico has true socialized healthcare, and the lack of taxpayer funding, caused by crashing tex revenues, is forcing most doctors to go to Plan B: “Plan B is you have to leave the island because there’s no other way, there’s no choice.”-Antonio Peraza, doctor interviewed for NPR
Texas: What housing market recovery? Local news reports discovered that Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. For some reason Fannie Mae administrators are refusing to say how many people are now unemployed.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
15 April 2016: “the cuts aren’t deep enough”
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
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.”