Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Arizona: In Tucson, after eight years On a Roll Sushi restaurant shutdown.  The landlord put the building up for sale and the restaurant owner is sure any new landlord will jack up his rent, so he’s getting out now as his lease is almost up.

California: The city of Eureka shutdown Humboldt Bay Fire Station 4.  The Fire Chief is also being forced to retire early, under the implied promise that nobody else would lose their job.  In Los Angeles, after ten years Sushi Central shutting down by the end of the month due to the greedy landlord selling the property.

Connecticut: Greenwich based Too Big to Jail AlphaBridge Capital Management hit with a $5-million SEC fine, and will now start killing jobs because the SEC has barred the owners from doing business for the next three years!

Georgia: Law firm Morris Schneider Wittstadt bankrupt busted and shutting down, 480 jobs lost!  It’s connected to the loss of $30-million USD apparently embezzled by a managing partner.

Hawaii: The University of Hawaii is refusing to re-open the the Mauna Kea summit road and visitor center.  The road was originally shutdown by people protesting the University’s Thirty Meter Telescope on the Mount.  University administrators say they can’t open the road until they’re sure it’s safe, fearing the protestors had sabotaged the road.  Now eight tour guide companies are warning they will be forced to shutdown and layoff employees.

Kentucky: Bankrupt food producer Gourmet Express was sold off, and now their Muhlenberg County factory is shutdown, at least 81 jobs lost.

Maryland: Armored bank truck maker Dunbar Armor laying off 1-hundred people in August!  It’s blamed on the loss of their Too Big to Jail Bank of America contract.  In Gaitherburg, Largent’s restaurant shutdown, the chef blamed “a variety of reasons”.

Michigan:  The Royal Park Hotel’s 11 years old Brookshire restaurant shutdown, because it became “passé”.  Coldwater Board of Education eliminated 17 jobs, blaming the loss of 625 students since the 2000-01 school year.  In Greenville, three businesses shutting down at the same time; Springrove Variety store, Cottage Porch Gift Shoppe and Anne’s Pet Shoppe.  The owner-manager of Springrove Variety says many customers are still ignorant of the bad the economy: “We’ve been struggling for quite awhile now. Our regulars have a hard time understanding. Everybody’s just disappointed.”-Kristin Sprenger

MInnesota: A leaked internal memo revealed that American Public Media Group is about to eliminate jobs at its Minnesota Public Radio ops.  Among other things the memo stated “We will eliminate and change positions in some departments….We cannot succeed with ‘business as usual.'” In Hutchinson, after seven years video game store GameStop shutdown with little warning.  Cafe co-op Jefferson People’s House shutdown because “Our team has simultaneously discovered new opportunities and have decided as a collective to dissolve Jefferson People’s House to put our energies into new, exciting projects.”

New Jersey: Dale and Thomas Popcorn issued a WARN saying they will shutdown their Englewood popcorn factory in August, the remaining 53 jobs lost.  56 employees were laid off a few months ago, the company is moving operations to Indiana.

New York: In Elmira, Cyberdark Computing shutdown, the owner blamed crashing sales.  In Oneida, Oneida Financial-Oneida Savings Bank eliminating 60 jobs in October, due to their takeover of Community Bank of DeWitt.  In Brooklyn, after seven years the owner of restaurant Char No 4 announced they will shutdown, but didn’t explain why.  In NYC, the owner of Dusty Buttons blames slumlord Icon Realty Management for forcing her to shutdown by jacking up her rent by 125%!   Turns out one grocer in The Big Apple is a Big Liar, but finally admitted to overcharging customers. Whole Foods Markets had gained the nickname Whole Paycheck because of their outrageous prices (it’s amazing that sheeple NYCers shopped there at all) and the executives in charge revealed that yes indeed they were overcharging customers. But don’t give those A-Holes a break, they called the overcharging “mistakes” and would have never admitted to it if it weren’t for the fact they were being investigated by the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs, who called it “the worst case of overcharges that they have ever seen.” And to top things, those evil Whole Foods Market execs went as far as to imply blame on their employees by saying employees will be retrained in proper pricing of food! The Department of Consumer Affairs also revealed that 77% of grocery stores in NYC are overcharging customers in some way, but since 2010 NYC has chalked up 8-hundred violations against Whole Foods Market, way more than any other grocery chain. Yeah right Whole Paycheck-Whole Foods, overcharging customers since 2010 is not the result of “mistakes”.

North Carolina: After 22 years, non-profit local business start-up support company Hand Made in America shutdown blaming lack of funding.  The city of Belhaven says the ObamaCare shutdown of their Vidant Pungo Hospital one year ago is about to kill-off their entire economy: “We have a situation where we have our largest employer that closed down, all the people who came to Belhaven every day to the hospital don’t come anymore. I have businesses talking to me telling me they’re going to close! The revenues we used to get from the hospital aren’t there anymore!”-Adam O’Neal, mayor

Pennsylvania: The 41 years old Granite Run Mall is now officially dead!  Only the anchor and exterior stores are open, but news reports say all leases have expired which means they could walk a way at any time.  In 2013 JCPenney said they would remain to be part of the new shopping plaza that would replace Granite Run mall, but that’s changed and they’re now shutting down their 39 years old Granite Run Mall store.

Ohio: Two of Ohio’s ten Developmental Centers  being shutdown between now and next year, hundreds of jobs already lost and hundreds of families affected!  State ‘lawmakers’ say the number of people using the service has dropped by 7-hundred over the past eight years, so they’re not willing to keep all ten centers open.

Texas:  In Austin, after 35 years the Dallas Nightclub dance venue shutting down in September, the owners didn’t explain why.   God refuses to stop ‘his’ Oak Cliff United Methodist Church from shutting down. The congregation of 128 people blame outrageous electricity costs (about $300-thousand per year) and $3-million in needed repairs.  In the wealthy area known as North Dallas, The Dog Stop hot dog joint shutdown: “My lease is up and the landlords want to tear down this building. I don’t know where I am going to go after this. I put a sign in the window and people are very sad. They love to drive through with their kids. I didn’t know how much they cared until now.”-Yon Kim, owner of 13 years old hot dog eatery

Virginia: Dominion Virginia Power shutting down their oil burning  Yorktown power plant by 2020, at least 108 jobs lost!  This is on top of their plans to shutdown their coal fired plants.  The power company says the cost to modify the electricity factories to meet new U.S. EPA standards doesn’t make it worth while to stay in the business.

Reports say Chesapeake based Dollar Tree will become the owner of Family Dollar on 06 July.  Expect store shutdowns and mass layoffs.

Washington: Penryn Farm U-Pick berry farm shutting down because the evil insurance industry (specifically State Farm) threatened to cancel their home insurance.  State Farm has labeled the hobby farm (which doesn’t make enough money to cover the actual costs of growing the berries) a “business” and wants the owners to pay for more costly business insurance.

Washington DC:  After 12 years clothier Urban Chic is shutting down their upper Wisconsin Avenue store by the end of the month, despite recently remodeling the store.  The operator blames competition, and even admitted to local news that she knew a full year ago that the store would shutdown.  In an interview with MSNBC U.S. Department of Education secretary Arne Duncan might have revealed an ulterior motive for shutting down fraudulent Corinthian Colleges; the Obama regime has now become the collector of all debts owed to the college by the ripped off students under the guise of “protecting taxpayers”!

Chris Hayes MSNBC: “The Department of Education has announced a loan forgiveness program, but…it requires onerous steps to jump through, why not just offer the students….a blanket debt forgiveness?”

Arne Duncan Obama regime Department of Education: “…we are thrilled to be able to close down Corinthian….despite stiff opposition from Congress…we’ve been working on this since 2009…we’re working with a number of students…we’ve also brought in a special ‘master’[he failed to explain this special master thing]...this is new work for us [wait, didn’t he just say they’ve been working on this since 2009?]”  Despite all the rehtoric Duncan used during the MSNBC interview he failed to actually explain why they’re treating students like crap.

Consumer groups suspect fraud on the part of the Obama regime: “Why would Secretary Duncan be thrilled to shut down Corinthian if there wasn’t systemic fraud? It tells you everything you need to know that his department continues to collect on Corinthian students’ debts when he could, under current law, erase it this very moment with a stroke of the pen.”– Debt Collective, representing 2-hundred former Corinthian students

Wisconsin: Too Big to Jail Anchor BanCorp (Anchor Bank) revealed it bought out 78 employees (Voluntary Separation Plan), 23 employees laid off outright, sold a branch office and shutdown six others.  Administrators blame crashing transaction volumes.

01 July 2015: “It’s a necessary evil.”

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.”