Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: After 20 years Birmingham based healthcare diagnostics lab Atherotech suddenly shutdown at the end of February, now chapter 7 bankrupt busted directly blaming ObamaCare for its death: “…Atherotech has worked hard to overcome numerous business challenges that resulted from adverse changes in the regulatory environment, increased pressure from commercial insurance payors and continued compression of profit margins…. ….we have been unsuccessful in convincing our lenders to cooperate so that we can extend the financing necessary to allow us to continue operations. As a result, we are now forced to close permanently.”
California: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Santa Barbara based wireless company Sonos announced it will eliminate jobs (but refuses to say how many) as they shift focus from WiFi to Streaming. And in Los Angeles, Fox Sports-digital suddenly eliminated more than 20 internet writer jobs through a loophole in their contracts. Basically Fox Sports blaming low ratings of their internet ‘team news-letters’ on the writers. After 22 years the Chula Vista Kmart shutting down, 103 jobs lost!
Colorado: Texas based Anadarko Petroleum confirmed it already eliminated dozens of jobs in The Centennial State, as it announced it will eliminate 1-thousand more jobs across the U.S. of A! British empire Canada based Encana Oil & Gas also announce mass layoffs, which will affect jobs with their Colorado operations.
Connecticut: “We are going to be closing state facilities, I’m sure. We are going to be laying off state employees, I’m quite certain.”-Dannel P. Malloy, governor talking about the 1-thousand state jobs ‘lawmakers’ are about to kill, by June
Iowa: A couple of weeks after eliminating 1-hundred jobs, farm vehicle maker Deere (John Deere) eliminating an additional 125 jobs at factories in Ankeny and Dubuque!
Kentucky: Morehead State University notified employees of a pending furlough of five days without pay. It’ll happen before the end of June and is the result of governor Matt Bevin’s $1.95-million USD in funding cuts. More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; e-commerce and logistics company Innotrac shutting down their Hebron operation, 338 jobs lost by July! There was no official reason given, but local news sources suspect it’s connected to a deal with Amazon.
Massachusetts: More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; Aspect Software now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, admitting it’s a “pre-arranged restructuring” to reduce its massive debt by 40%. In Fairhaven, Sears Appliance & Hardware shutting down by mid-April. Local news reports said the ignorant employees actually thought the shutdown notice was a joke! I guess they don’t read Blind Bat News.
New York: Investor’s Business Daily eliminating a handful of jobs at their NYC publishing ops, by the end of April. Food service company HMS Host issued a layoff WARN for their JFK Airport ops, 134 jobs lost due to loss of contract! 
NYC based Colgate-Palmolive announced that sales are so bad they’ll extend their ongoing job culling into 2017, and increase the layoffs to a new total of 3-thousand 8-hundred!
North Carolina: In Winston-Salem, non-profit Community Care Center forced to shutdown their Med-Aid Pharmacy due to crashing donations and state taxpayer funding. Yep, even with ObamaCare there are still at least 530 low income people not covered by insurance, who rely on Med-Aid, in the Novant Health Medical Park area!
Ohio: Huntington Bancshares about to takeover First Merit and will shutdown 107 bank offices across Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Pennsylvania as a result! The shutdowns will take place in the 1st quarter of 2017, if the takeover is approved.
Texas: In Abilene, Kids Village furniture store shutting down in May, the owner doesn’t want to renew her lease. She indirectly blames the oil industry layoffs for slowing sales. 
Houston based Tailored Brands-Men’s Warehouse-Jos A. Bank clothier announced it will shutdown 250 stores after 4th quarter 2015 holiday sales went down the crapper!
Washington: Bankrupt Haggen (assassinated by Albertsons-Safeway) shutdown two grocery stores, in Federal Way and Burein, 125 jobs gone! Despite being killed off by Albertsons-Safeway, by being tricked into buying more than 1-hundred money losing Albertsons stores, Haggen is now attempting to sell 33 of its remaining stores to Albertsons-Safeway! More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high tech for your demise; a week after Seattle based retailer Nordstrom eliminated ten IT jobs, they laid off an additional 1-hundred tech employees!
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
09 March 2016: “no longer economically feasible to continue”
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.”