All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
Business/Economics, Idaho

“Iconic places are going out of business, and nobody cares.” Goodwill ramps up shutdowns! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 18 January 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Alabama: Sears Holdings shutting down the Florence Kmart in March, more than 1-hundred jobs lost!  A local news report said the employees knew nothing about it and were shocked to hear it from the news!

Arkansas: Good Food by Ferneau shutting down because the owner-chef is taking a job working for somebody else. 

California:  In San Francisco, the Gangway bar shutdown due to ignoramus owner failing to pay his employees at least minimum wage.  In California the so called Tip Credit does not apply, food service workers must be paid minimum wage even though they’re paid tips by customers.  According to the lawsuit the owner, who’s lived in California for decades, thought the Tip Credit rule was valid in California (I knew about that rule back in the 1980s, how can people who’ve lived in California longer than me be so stupid regarding The Golden State’s wage laws?).  In Anaheim Hills, after at least 30 years popular Foxfire An American Chophouse shutting down at the start of February, to make room for a shopping plaza.  In Los Altos, Main Street Cafe shutting down by the end of the month, apparently to eventually be replaced with yet another restaurant “concept”.  

Connecticut: In Greenwich, after a little more than 12 years Graham’s Toys shutdown due to the greedy landlord: “The rents are not sustainable.  The amount of business we’ve done is respectable, but it’s just not sustainable for this market.”-Shelly Steinberg, owner

Idaho:   Another Gem State Kmart shutting down, this time the Boise Kmart on Fairview shutting down by mid-March, 56 jobs lost.  A sure sign that healthcare costs are going up, the state Department of Health and Welfare is requesting a $26.3-million USD budget increase!  Administrators are now saying the previous 3.9% increase is not enough to fund the new mandate (Primary Care Access Program) to cover the 78-thousand Idahoans who fall into the Right to Work (you over) ObamaCare gap!

Illinois:  In Orland Park, Palos Community Hospital shutting down their Palos Health & Fitness center in May.  In a round-a-bout way administrators said ObamaCare was forcing them to “prioritize” their services.

Kansas: In Wichita, after 105 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Head’s Shoes shutdown. Local news said the owners aren’t commenting as to why.

Maryland: Rockville based charity thrift store/’job training center’ Goodwill shutdown 26 stores and donation centers in Toronto, Canada, apparently with no warning!  The Ontario Great Lakes Goodwill regional office claims the shutdowns are part of their plan to  remain “financially very strong and on a path of growth and prosperity.”  In other words they’re preparing for the economy to get worse!

Michigan:  New York based clothier Aeropostale shutting down their Mall of Monroe store by the end of the month.  Aeropostale has shutdown hundreds of stores since 2014 and recently said they will eliminate 1-hundred corporate level jobs.

Missouri:  In Saint Louis, after almost 20 years Harry’s Bar & Restaurant shutting down by the end of the month.  It’s starting to sound like city re-development projects are killing off local businesses: “It’s the economy, the highway closing, Ballpark Village. Downtown is just a dead area right now….nobody is talking about it. Iconic places are going out of business, and nobody cares.  Ballpark Village was the nail in the coffin. It shut down Washington Avenue and took 70% of our business.”-Tim Pieri, co-owner

New York: In Saugerties the McDonald’s junk food joint on 8 Manor Lane shutting down by the end of the month, the owner saying “It’s a business decisions…”, revealing that even when the restaurant was “making money” it was considered “under-performing”!

Ohio: With no warning Columbus based chain restaurant Max & Erma’s shutdown 13 operations in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, hundreds now jobless!  Corporate administrators said they have to “streamline” operations due to the economy.  Overwhelmingly employees say they’re shocked that their employer could shutdown overnight, (I’ve been there experienced that several times, so welcome to reality. Now try living with so many of your peers not believing that your former employer could lay you off with no warning, your employed peers always think you did something wrong! It’s amazing what the working class takes for granted, oh the power of false belief.).

Pennsylvania:  After more than three years Marty’s Market shutdown without warning, the owners saying only “We have had to make the extremely difficult decision to close…” 

Rhode Island:  More trouble for video games.  A state investigation into former Major League Baseball player Curt Schilling’s video game company 38 Studios could result in a criminal case.  38 Studios went mysteriously bankrupt and shutdown a few months after releasing it’s only video game (the game was considered a success and sold well).  The problem is that 38 Studios was partially funded with millions in state taxpayer loans, which were never paid back.

Virginia: France based nuclear power plant operator Areva laid off 50 people in Lynchburg, and another 40 at nuclear operations around the U.S.   Local news reports say since 2014 Areva has eliminated 3-hundred jobs in Luynchburg.

West Virginia: After announcing that it had suffered a 13% drop in revenue in 2015, Florida based railroad company CSX announced it will shutdown its Huntington operations, 121 jobs affected!  The work will be spread out among other CSX depots.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

17 January 2016: “we have nothing left…financially, emotionally or physically.”

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.”

International

Operation Jupiter: For past 40 years a major Vaccine maker lied about how they make vaccines!

18 January 2016 (00:22 UTC-07 Tango 01)/28 Dey 1394/07 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/09 Ding-Chou (12th month) 4713

Quietly, in December 2015 police raided a decades old and respected vaccine maker.  Today it’s been revealed that at least eight of the company’s products are fake!

Japan’s Kaketsuken-Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute was suspended from selling those eight products after Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare discovered the company lied about everything regarding those products.  Kaketsuken is also suspended from doing business for 110 days.

The December raid came after an employee blew the whistle.  Documents seized in the raid proved the employee correct.  For at least 40 years banned ingredients were being put into vaccines and blood treatment products, and the data for the effectiveness of those products are false!

Katesuken is one of many drug companies that settled lawsuits claiming that more than 1,400 Japanese hemophiliacs were infected with HIV(AIDS) after using their blood treatment drugs!  (Somebody investigate how HIV got inside drugs at the point of manufacture)

Today’s admission by the Ministry of Health could open up lawsuits against the government, for failing to police the evil drugs industry which has killed thousands of Japanese (documented by lawsuits against the drugs companies) since the 1980s!

It’s time the common people of Japan throwaway that damned Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil philosophy and get mean!

I say once a Snake Oil Salesperson always a Snake Oil Salesperson.  But snake oil (drugs-vaccines-medicine-pills, etc) wouldn’t be such a big seller if it wasn’t for, as an unverified critic of iconic American hustler P.T. Barnum once said, there being “…a sucker born every minute.”  (by the way, P.T. Barnum did not utter that pontification, it was a critic of his charlatan ways who did, but Barnum did say that his customers were “fickle and ofttimes perverse”)

Operation Jupiter: Obama regime approves $900-million for new biological warfare, testing new vaccines on HIV-AIDS victims!

Business/Economics, Idaho

“we have nothing left…financially, emotionally or physically.” Consumer spending falls in 2015! Execs get bonuses for killing jobs! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 17 January 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Jamaica, a member country of the West Indies Federation, is reporting that the unAmerican corporate America hospitality industry will hire 3-thousand Jamaicans in 2016, that’s a 50% increase from 2015!  The majority of Jamaicans are working in the U.S. states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Michigan.

Arkansas: Bentonville based economic canary in the coal mine Walmart began shutting down 154 U.S. stores on 17 January 2016, at least 10-thousand U.S. jobs lost!   (here’s the list)

California:  Cupertino based Apple is hurting for cash so much that it will now charge you to listen to ad plastered iTunes Radio in the U.S.   Here’s a fine example of why it’s not worth it to do business in The Golden State: The city of Palo Alto is demanding the family owners of Buena Vista mobile home park pay an $8-million USD fine for wanting to shutdown their money losing operation:  “The city says the money is needed so that the tenants can get expensive alternative housing in the area; in effect, the city is holding the Jissers uniquely responsible for solving the city’s severe housing affordability problem. That’s not just wrong, it’s unconstitutional.   …..The city’s motion to dismiss doesn’t deny that the city is commanding a payment of $8 million…It just says the case shouldn’t be heard by a judge….. -Larry Salzman, Pacific Legal Foundation

Hawaii:  Kahului Trucking & Storage laying off drivers as a result of the sudden shutdown of The Aloha State’s last sugar farm.

Idaho:  A new study by the United Way shows 37% of Idahoans are in poverty and employed!  Specifically, 37% of Idahoans are now classified as working poor, or Asset Limited-Income Constrained-Employed (aka ALICE).  The United Way says even with the piddly-ass social services Idahoans cannot afford to buy basic necessities!   And for more proof Right to Work only Works You Over keep reading.Governor Butch Otter wants a third mental health crisis center built in The Gem State.  Between 2014-15 eastern and northern Idaho got one each, and now Otter wants one in southern Idaho.  ‘Lawmakers’ and even local sheriffs praise the crisis centers but don’t give examples of why they’re so good.  The centers are meant to temporarily house people having mental health or drug abuse problems, instead of putting them in county jails.  The fact that sheriffs are praising them, and the governor wants to spend another $1.72-million building another one, indicates a huge need, that a lot of Idahoans are having trouble dealing with their Right to Work (you over) circumstances, yet Right to Work officials don’t want to admit it.     The city owned utility Idaho Falls Power is about to take over part of Rocky Mountain Power’s turf.  If the state Public Utilities Commission approves Rocky Mountain Power will transfer poles, conductors and conduits around the Fielding Cemetery property to the control of taxpayers of the city of Idaho Falls, for the price of  $50-thousand USD.   Even God couldn’t stop a Christian student from ripping off the Mormon Brigham Young University-Idaho of $6-thousand 2-hundred, using a university credit card.  Of course that ‘christian’ student wasn’t very smart because you can trace credit card transactions, and that’s how he got caught.

Kentucky:  ISO copper wire maker Belden shutting down their factory in Monticello, 260 jobs being lost to the state of Indiana and to the country of Mexico, between now and the beginning of next year!

Louisiana: In Opelousas, dancehall Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki shutdown after 69 years.  The property is now for sale.  The family owners blame young people and today’s greedy spoiled bands: “They don’t look at the overhead you have, the utilities and things like that. They tell me, ‘We’ll take the door.’ They’ll start off charging at $10, then $15 and $20. By midnight, they’ll have a packed house. They’ll put the money in their pockets and go home. Then you have all the stress of what the night crowd destroyed and what you have to fix. It got to where we weren’t hardly making any more money.”

Missouri:  Mike Shannon’s Steaks and Seafood shutting down their 30 years old downtown Saint Louis location,  claiming it will help them focus on “franchise expansion”.

Montana: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission records reveal that five executives of Stillwater Mining got paid the equivalent of millions of dollars in bonuses less than five months after they eliminated 120 jobs!  The bonuses were paid in the form of stocks in the company.  Company administrators refused to comment when questioned by local news media.

New Hampshire:  In Bath, The Brick Store (one of the oldest general stores in the U.S.) shutting down “due to changes in the economy”.  The owners, Mike and Nancy Lusby, added “We did our best, but we have exhausted our resources, and lost Mike’s pension. We have done everything we can for 24 years to save the store, but we have nothing left to give … financially, emotionally or physically.”

New Jersey:  God refuses to stop the shutdown of his Mother Teresa Catholic School, in June.  Enrollment is down below 1-hundred students.    For more proof the economy has not recovered, a major shipping company, which services retailers like Disney Store and Amazon.com, Elizabeth based EZ Worldwide Express is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to crashing shipment orders!   The company even invested $12-million USD into new trucks, but now the 7-hundred employees are threatened with unemployment!  With the massive retail store shutdowns now taking place across the U.S. you can expect even more shipping companies to go bust.

Ohio:  Researchers at Ohio State University have proven that an ‘Amazon Tax’ killed internet holiday sales in 2015.   They determined that sales on Amazon.com dropped an average of 8.3% in states that implemented taxes on internet purchases.  The Washington Post article said sales declines increased as the price of the item went up: “The Amazon Tax had an especially chilling effect on big-ticket purchases that totaled more than $250, the study found. On these transactions, Amazon sales declined 11.4 percent once the tax was put in place.”      U.S. Department of Energy awarded a contract potentially valued at $139.7-million USD to a company in Idaho, to provide infrastructure support services at the radioactive Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, in Piketon.  Interestingly the Idaho Falls, Idaho, based company is called Portsmouth Mission Alliance.  In Toledo, Laffs comedy club shutdown just short of the two year mark. The club’s operations manager said “…the turnout was not quite where we needed it to be.”

Pennsylvania: In Moosic, controversial adult outdoor movie theater Oak Hill Drive-In shutdown because they couldn’t afford to upgrade to digital.

Tennessee:  Jerky maker Oberto shutting down its two years old Nashville meat factory despite promising to create 310 jobs and getting almost $2-million in taxpayer funds and grants (not tax breaks, outright cash!).  State ‘lawmakers’ swear they’ll go after the jerky maker for a refund of the tax funding.  The Nashville factory never got above 82 employees, despite Oberto’s promise.  See more below in -Washington-.   Here’s what Karl Dean, the now former mayor of Nashville, said back in 2012: “Oberto’s decision to locate a plant in Nashville speaks to the vitality of our city and the talent of our workforce. I’m especially pleased that Oberto will be bringing an existing facility back to life. Filling vacant buildings in and around our urban core is important to the strength and future of our city.”   

Washington:  Kent based mass produced jerky maker Oberto announced it will shutdown its two years old meat factory in Tennessee (well, the factory is two years old, I don’t know about the meat) and sell-off a meat factory in Oregon!   The suck-ass economy is forcing Oberto to consolidate jerky treat making to its Washington ops.

Washington DC: Wonder what’s up with all the massive retail store shutdowns?  The Department of Commerce released consumer spending numbers for 2015 and overall spending fell from 2014, and is on its way to 2008-09 levels!  Even 2015 holiday sales flatlined!   Of course the self exalted ‘expert’ analysts on TV still claim that consumers are just “holding onto their money”.   I can tell you why I didn’t spend any money in 2015 on gifts or ‘extras’, same reason as the prior two years I don’t have any extra money to spend, I’m actually borrowing money to pay utilities gottdamn it!

Wisconsin:  Retail packaging company Sealed Air shutting down their Mount Pleasant office, 74 jobs lost.  It’s part of their plans, announced back in 2014, to move 3-hundred jobs out of The Badger State!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

16 January 2016: Wells Fargo home foreclosures funding bad oil industry debts? 

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.”

International

Woolly Mammoths killed by weapons, 10,000 years before humans arrived?

16 January 2016 (03:25 UTC-07 Tango 01)/26 Dey 1394/05 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/07 Ding-Chou (12th month) 4713

Russian paleontologists studying the remains of a 45-thousand years old Woolly Mammoth discovered it had been killed with human made weapons (spears).  This is significant because the age of the mammoth puts it 10-thousand years before evidence of humans show up in the Arctic region!

 

The mammoth remains also show the Too Early for Arctic Time humans butchered their kill, and attempted-but-failed to crack open a tusk.

U.S.

Iran to save Boeing!

16 January 2016 (03:09 UTC-07 Tango 01)/26 Dey 1394/05 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/07 Ding-Chou (12th month) 4713

Proving U.S. sanctions are a failure, the Obama regime is allowing the flailing airliner maker Boeing to sell its aircraft to Iran.

Iran’s civil aviation industry is looking to buy 5-hundred new aircraft and all the parts they can handle!  Apparently Iran is willing to spend $50-billion USD doing so.

The recent nuclear deal allows countries to sell to Iran civilian aircraft and parts.

Older Iranian Boeing 737-200

In August 2015, Reuters reported that Iran was willing to buy as many as 90 new European and U.S. made airliners per year!  Then in November 2015, Iranian news media reported that Boeing secretly signed a deal selling Iran 13 Boeing 737-400 airliners!

Iran Air’s aging Boeing 747

China & Iran deal in Rial & Yuan, only?

Iran to push oil to $10 per barrel!

U.S.

United Police States: Obama approves extra funding for prisons!

16 January 2016 (02:54 UTC-07 Tango 01)/26 Dey 1394/05 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/07 Ding-Chou (12th month) 4713

The U.S. Department of Labor is handing out $5-million USD in additional taxpayer funding for prisons around the U.S.

The Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release grants are being spilt into ten and are to be used to provide employment training for people about to get out of jail.  The DoL says administrators are starting to see a connection between prison rates and inability to get a job.  Wow, shows you how dumb our leaders got, studies proved that back in the early 20th Century!

Business/Economics, Idaho

Great Lakes tonnage down by 9-million! Wells Fargo home foreclosures covering bad oil industry debts? Walmart fallout already killing other businesses! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 16 January 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Journal Boating Industry reports “Both the unemployment rate and the number of job openings have remained essentially unchanged month-over-month, and yearly gains are starting to flatten.”  Thom Dammrich, of the National Marine Manufacturers Association, reported mixed news for the boating industry as a whole, going into 2016:  “Fuel prices remain low. Interest rates remain low. There’s nothing negative happening to adversely affect boat sales in the coming year that we can see today……The saltwater category has been growing in double digits…..” but he had a warning “We still are not getting entry-level boaters and that’s who buys these boats. That seems to be who’s missing from this equation.”

Alabama: Birmingham based Regions Bank announced the elimination of 260 jobs!  

Arkansas: Oil pipe maker Tenaris laid off 1-hundred people, blaming the crashing-n-burning oil industry!

Arizona: Days after non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) boasted that it was responsible for creating  jobs in the Phoenix area, several former employees came forth and essentially said ‘bull-shit!’ as they were part of a round of unreported TGen layoffs in October!  A reporter, who just happens to live next door to one of those laid off, did some research and discovered that TGen laid off 12 people and eliminated four vacant positions by the end of 2015. Industry reports say mining company Freeport-McMoRan has begun to layoff at least 8-hundred people at its Green Valley molybdenum Sierrita Mine!  In December a co-founder of the company resigned, after vulture capitalist investor Carl Icahn gained a controlling stake in the company (Icahn is the same guy who recently took over auto parts store Pep Boys).

California:  San Francisco based Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo continues to kill jobs, this time 121 tech jobs across the country!  It’s been revealed that Wells Fargo is actually covering the bad loans of huge oil companies (by literally throwing money at them), this should piss you off because Wells Fargo (a major mortgage company) does not hesitate to foreclose on homeowners!  (Mmmm, is it a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul?)   More proof you can’t blame the internet for brick-n-mortar destruction, dating website Zoosk laid off 40 employees.  In Venice, Superba Snack Bar shutting down at the end of the month.   In Tulare,  a class action lawsuit against Jan & Gail’s Care Homes (“Care Homes”) said newly hired employees were forced to sign an agreement waiving their right to uninterrupted meal periods without notifying employees of their right to revoke the agreement at any time.  However, the trial court ruled subdivision 11(E) of Wage Order 5 allows residential care facilities to force their employees to work on-duty meal periods!  

Florida:   In Lake City, Sitel Operating Corporation issued a WARN saying 94 people will be laid off in March.

Idaho: State Department of Health and Welfare hit with lawsuit accusing the Right to Work (you over) agency of hiding the changes in Medicaid healthcare costs for people who face being institutionalized.  The lawsuit accuses the state administrators of pretending that costs will not go up by being placed in a nursing home or hospital, and, of not informing patients of their rights.  This lawsuit comes as state ‘lawmakers’ claimed their version of ObamaCare was saving money!

Kansas: Besides the nine Walmart stores shutting down within The Sunflower State, the QuickTrip fuel station on 13th and Oliver, in Wichita, shutting down after 25 years.  It’s directly and immediately blamed on the shutdowns of nearby Walmarts: “We didn’t know it was going to be affected as dramatically as it has.The other store has suffered much quicker than we anticipated. We’ve been watching it for a while, and we could see that, unfortunately, the sales continue to decline.”-Mike Thornbrugh, QuickTrip

Michigan:  A great indicator of a good, or bad, economy are the lock systems used by shipping around The Great Lakes.   Soo Locks reports shipping for 2015 was down 10%, actual cargo tonnage down 9-million U.S. tons!    California based direct selling company ViSalus is eliminating 87 jobs in Troy by March, officially because their sales have crashed (down 44% in 2013), but it might also have something to do with lawsuits accusing the company of being yet another pyramid scheme.

Minnesota: Sears Holdings shutting down the Dundas Kmart by April, 32 jobs lost.   In Minneapolis, popular Nye’s Polonaise Room shutting down in April because property developers want to build a 29 story apartment complex in its place.

New York:  American Rock Salt laid off 17 employees blaming the unusually warm winter weather in The Empire State.   Cumberland Packing officially issued a shutdown WARN for their Brooklyn Naval Yard Sweet-n-Low ops, 335 jobs lost between May and December!  What automotive industry recovery?  In Plattsburgh, British empire Canada based bus maker Prevost Car issued a shutdown WARN, at least 55 jobs lost in April.  In Schenectady, Granite Services lost their contract with GE Power, 41 jobs lost by March.  NYC based MTV laid off an undisclosed number of people, as reported by those who were laid off.

Ohio: Florida based upscale Ruth’s Chris Steak House shutting down their 17 years old Columbus location in February “due to changing marketplace dynamics”, possibly referring to increased rent.

Oklahoma:  Inola Public Schools laid off four people and literally turned down the lights due to lack of money.  Administrators warn of more cuts.

Texas:  Sears Holdings shutting down the Longview Kmart in April, 60 jobs lost.

Virginia:  After boosting production and bringing new jobs to the area in 2015, Poland based Korona Candles laid off an undisclosed number of people, and reduced hours for employees, claiming it’s a normal seasonal thing.

Washington DC: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of people finding work as information security analysts (cybersecurity) is steadily growing, yet it’s still not enough to meet demand.  Apparently the concept of cybersecurity is too vague, mysterious, or even sinister, for many people trying to figure out what type of career they’re interested in.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

15 January 2016: The U.S. economy “…has gone the way of the Dodo Bird.” 

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.”

International

Global Food Crisis: No more Salmon from Europe?

15 January 2016 (16:30 UTC-07 Tango 01)/25 Dey 1394/04 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/06 Ding-Chou (12th month) 4713

At least four Norwegian salmon fishing outfits are reporting they can’t find any salmon!

Last season they claim they had to end the fishing early due to an outbreak of sea-lice infesting the fish.  The result is the fishing industry panicked and harvested way too many salmon too soon, meaning they harvested a lot of fish before they were able to spawn!

Now there are so few North Sea salmon that the price skyrocketed to 30 year-highs in the fish markets.

“Driven by low availability and weak NOK, salmon prices have continued up during the week. We are now seeing one of the highest weekly prices ever ….The biomass situation is challenging as the volume available for harvesting over the next six months are substantially lower….”-Kolbjorn Giskeodegard, Nordea

Global Food Crisis: No more Salmon from South America? 

U.S. Food Crisis December 2015: “…what are you supposed to do when the kids tell you they are hungry & they don’t have any money?” 

Business/Economics

Walmart Hell: U.S. economic bellwether kills 16,000 jobs in 2016! Here’s the list!

15 January 2016 (15:00 UTC-07 Tango 01)/25 Dey 1394/04 Rabi’a’-Thani 1437/06 Ding-Chou (12th month) 4713

Walmart admits (kinda) their sales are so bad they will shutdown 154 stores inside the United States, and another 115 around the world!  The lions share of job killing will take place in the U.S.; 10-thousand people laid off in the home country, while 6-thousand global jobs will be eliminated!   It all starts to collapse at the end of January.

Administrators gave a clue as to which U.S. Walmart stores are shutting down; stores that are within ten miles of another Walmart.

Here’s the list of U.S. shutdowns:

#2173: 14331 Count Rd. 99, Headland, AL 1/28/2016 #2524: 5502 Monterey Hwy, San Jose, CA 1/28/2016
#2011: 18 Apple Way, Ashford, AL 1/28/2016 #2949: 151 E 5th St., Long Beach, CA 1/28/2016
#2165: 952 E. Lawrence Harris Hwy, Slocomb, AL 1/28/2016 #5457: 8400 Edgewater Drive, Oakland, CA 1/17/2016
#2186: 407 West Washington St., Abbeville, AL 1/28/2016 #2960: 4101 Crenshaw Blcd., Los Angeles, CA 1/17/2016
#2235: 6361 Hwy 72 East Gurley, AL 1/28/2016 #3507: 2701 Port Covington Drive, Baltimore, MD 1/17/2016
#2260: 87395 US Hwy 278, Snead, AL 1/28/2016 #3496: 5825 W Hope Ave., Milwaukee, WI 1/28/2016
#3769: 3530 Cathedral Caverns Hwy, Grant, AL 1/28/2016
#3779: 10188 Hwy 431 South, New Hope, AL 1/28/2016 Supercenter Date closed to public
#2498: 720 N Hwy 71, Mansfield, AR 1/28/2016 #3814 6525 Glacier Hwy, Juneau, AK 2/5/2016
#2578: 3500 Mulberry Hwy 64 W, Mulberry, AR 1/28/2016 #763: 7201 Aaron Aronov Drive, Fairfield, AL 1/28/2016
#2601: 814 W. Main, Charleston, AR 1/28/2016 #4584: 10400 Highland Rd., Hartland, MI 1/28/2016
#2669: 1531 E Hwy 64, Coal Hill, AR 1/28/2016 #4369: 1010 Martin Luther King Pkwy., Durham, NC 1/28/2016
#3819: 8848 N Hwy 59, Van Buren, AR 1/28/2016 #2837: 4350 N Nellis Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 1/17/2016
#3878: 5 Hwy 124 West, Damascus, AR 1/28/2016 #4342: 22209 Rockside Rd., Bedford, OH 1/28/2016
#4217: 154 E Roller, Decatur, AR 1/28/2016 #2606: 721 US Hwy 321 BYP S Unit, Winnsboro, SC 1/28/2016
#3032: 905 S Gentry Blvd, Gentry, AR 1/28/2016 #883: 14091 FM 490, Raymondville, TX 1/28/2016
#3033: 800 1st Ave SE, Gravette, AR 1/28/2016 #5493: 7480 Padre Island Hwy, Brownsville, TX 1/28/2016
#3034: 881 W Buchanan, Prairie Grove, AR 1/28/2016 #5478: 8201 N FM 620, Austin, TX 1/28/2016
#3358: 1113 S.R. 20, Interlachen, FL 1/28/2016 #597: 7075 FM 1960 Rd W, Houston, TX 1/28/2016
#4265: 1209 East Wade St., Trenton, FL 1/28/2016 #3811: 61 Plaza Drive, Kimball, WV 1/28/2016
#4267: 15726 SE Hwy 19 Cross City, FL 1/28/2016
#4228: 560 S. Broad St., Ellaville, GA 1/28/2016 Neighborhood Market Date closed to public
#4229: 1041 S US Hwy 1, Alma, GA 1/28/2016 #5783: 117 Audubon Drive, Maumelle, AR 1/17/2016
#4234: 155 West Washington Ave., Ashburn, GA 1/28/2016 #5642: 2408 Lincoln Ave., Altadena, CA 1/28/2016
#4251: 398 Barrow Ave SW, Pelham, GA 1/28/2016 #5688: 6820 Eastern Ave., Bell Gardens, CA 1/28/2016
#4254: 907 Marianna Hwy, Donalsonville, GA 1/28/2016 #3086: 701 W Cesar E Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 1/17/2016
#4261: 290 Albany Ave. West, Pearson, GA 1/28/2016 #5690: 2045 E Highland Ave., San Bernardino, CA 1/28/2016
#4263: 142 S. Valdosta Road, Lakeland, GA 1/28/2016 #4173 12120 Carson St., Hawaiian Gardens, CA 1/28/2016
#3065: 3636 N Broadway St., Chicago, IL 1/17/2016 #5002, 8196 West Bowles Ave., Littleton, CO 1/17/2016
#3039: 225 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 1/17/2016 #3021: 2253 S Monaco Pkwy., Denver, CO 1/28/2016
#3369: 900 East Ross Ave., Clearwater, KS 1/28/2016 #2303: 333 N Main St., West Hartford, CT 1/28/2016
#4353: 505 Housatonic St., Burlington, KS 1/28/2016 #5856: 601 N West St. STE 100, Wichita, KS 1/28/2016
#4360: 705 N High School Ave., Columbus, KS 1/28/2016 #5860: 9831 E Harry St., Wichita, KS 1/28/2016
#4361: 1105 East 15th St., Ellsworth, KS 1/28/2016 #5873: 4794 E 13th, Wichita, KS 1/28/2016
#4362: 120 West Rosewood St., Rose Hill, KS 1/28/2016 #3097: 8235 SW Apple Way, Portland, OR 1/17/2016
#4651: 605 Orchard Drive, Hillsboro, KS 1/28/2016 #5995: 17711 Jean Way, Lake Oswego, OR 1/28/2016
#3755: 1445 Old Highway 13, Mamou, LA 1/28/2016 #3306 1220 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, TN 1/28/2016
#4634: 1506 Main St., Colfax, LA 1/28/2016 #3171: 2218 Greenville Ave., Dallas (Greenville), TX 1/28/2016
#3753: 620 North Hwy 26, Lake Arthur, LA 1/28/2016 #3451: 2740 Gessner Rd., Houston, TX 1/28/2016
#3815: 501 West Hwy 90, Iowa, LA 1/28/2016 #5985: 2201 West Southlake Blvd., Southlake, TX 1/28/2016
#3839: 9181 Hwy 67, Clinton, LA 1/28/2016 #4126: 1901 S. Texas Ave., Bryan, TX 1/28/2016
#3849: 920 Avenue G, Kentwood, LA 1/28/2016 #5986: 4268 Legacy Drive, Frisco, TX 1/17/2016
#3879: 1495 Obrie St., Zwolle, LA 1/28/2016 #3030: 3850 N 124th St., Wauwatosa, WI 1/28/2016
#4647: 515 3rd St., Independence, LA 1/28/2016 #3031: N88W15559 Main St., Menomonee Falls, WI 1/28/2016
#4269: 224 E Hwy 76, Anderson, MO 1/28/2016 #5698: S14W22605 Coral Drive, Waukesha, WI 1/28/2016
#4270: 508 N Cliffside Dr., Noel, MO 1/28/2016
#4282: 33597 State Hwy 112, Seligman, MO 1/28/2016 Amigo Date closed to public
#4289: 414 N Elm, Clever, MO 1/28/2016 #2343: 7B Calle Munoz Rivera, Villalba, PR 1/28/2016
#3856: 410 2nd St., Belmont, MS 1/28/2016 #2347: Bo Salto Arriba, Utuado, PR 1/28/2016
#3863: 2795 Hwy 371 N, Mantachie, MS 1/28/2016 #2342: PR 14, Parque Industrial, Coamo, PR 1/28/2016
#3865: 420 E Lee St., Sardis, MS 1/28/2016 #3667: 1 Ave Monserrate STE 1, Carolina, PR 1/28/2016
#3866: 28191 Hwy 15, Walnut, MS 1/28/2016 #3684: Carr 180 KM 0 HM 2, Salinas, PR 1/28/2016
#4294: 519 W Veterans Ave., Derma, MS 1/28/2016 #3689: Centro Com Rio Grande State, Rio Grande, PR 1/28/2016
#4296: 7104 Will Robbins Hwy, Nettleton, MS 1/28/2016 #3697: Carr 165 KM 4.7, Toa Alta, PR 1/28/2016
#3211: 509 Dr. Donnie H. Jones Blvd W, Princeton, NC 1/28/2016
#3249: 511 N Mckinley St., Coats, NC 1/28/2016 Sam’s Club Date closed to public
#5024: 6043 US Hwy 301 S, Four Oaks, NC 1/28/2016 #4903: 941 Grinnell St., Fall River, MA 1/28/2016
#3257: 112 N Main St., Broadway, NC 1/28/2016 #6648: 1110 Fall River Ave., Seekonk, MA 1/28/2016
#5015: 908 E. 4th Ave., Red Springs, NC 1/28/2016 #6665: 495 Summit Drive, Waterford, MI 1/28/2016
#5017: 7670 Clinton Rd., Stedman, NC 1/28/2016 #6681: 25 Pace Blvd., Warwick, RI 1/28/2016
#7207: 1400 B Broad St., Oriental, NC 1/28/2016
#5138: 702 S. Wall St., Benson, NC 1/28/2016
#2500: 945 Monroe St., Carthage, NC 1/28/2016
#2573: 303 S. Goldsboro St., Pikeville, NC 1/28/2016
#6997: 632 W Swannanoa Ave., Liberty, NC 1/28/2016
#3007: 139 N Hwy 49, Richfield, NC 1/17/2016
#3036: 1593 NC Hwy 86 N, Yanceyville, NC 1/28/2016
#3037: 905 SE 2nd St., Snow Hill, NC 1/28/2016
#3080: 182 NC 102 W, Ayden, NC 1/28/2016
#3121: 189 Hickory Tree Rd., Midway, NC 1/28/2016
#3756: 124 E. Columbia St., Okemah, OK 1/28/2016
#4633: 19250 E Hwy 66, Luther, OK 1/28/2016
#2456: 2310 West Main, Prague, OK 1/28/2016
#2462: 1600 West Hwy 66, Stroud, OK 1/28/2016
#3766: 2324 Seran Drive, Wewoka, OK 1/28/2016
#3767: 812 N Clarence Nash Blvd., Watonga, OK 1/28/2016
#1250: 9032 Hwy 14, Gray Court, SC 1/28/2016
#3798: 7013 S Pine St., Pacolet, SC 1/17/2016
#2375: 4718 Nashville Hwy, Chapel Hill, TN 1/28/2016
#2413: 523 N Military St., Loretto, TN 1/28/2016
#4301: 400 North Main St., Cornersville, TN 1/28/2016
#4306: 934 Hwy 79, Dover, TN 1/28/2016
#2345: 721 Dale Evans Drive, Italy, TX 1/28/2016
#2349: 221 S State Hwy 274, Kemp, TX 1/28/2016
#2363: 504 W Pine St., Edgewood, TX 1/28/2016
#2364: 301 Hwy 69 S, Whitewright, TX 1/28/2016
#2410: 122 Commercial Ave., Anson, TX 1/28/2016
#2461: 1003 Telephone Cir., Merkel, TX 1/28/2016
#2779: 5 N 14th St., Haskell, TX 1/28/2016
#2863: 1010 N Main St., Winters, TX 1/28/2016
#3820: 501 N Main, Godley, TX 1/28/2016
#3822: 416 N Third St., Grandview, TX 1/28/2016
#3832: 420 S US 69, Leonard, TX 1/28/2016
#3834: 428 N Dallas St., Palmer, TX 1/28/2016
#4312: 440 E Pine St., Frankston, TX 1/28/2016
#4316: 1787 US Hwy 259 S, Diana, TX 1/28/2016
#4320: 1005 Texas Avenue E, Waskom, TX 1/28/2016
#4327: 870 Taylor St., Hughes Springs, TX 1/28/2016
#4331: 914 North Main St., Lone Star, TX 1/28/2016
#4338: 504 WL Doc Dodson, Naples, TX 1/28/2016
#4343: 12522 Fm 1840, Dekalb, TX 1/28/2016
#4345: 114 Redwater Boulevard West, Maud, TX 1/28/2016

 

Business/Economics

“We’ve gone from five installations a week to zero!” The U.S. economy “…has gone the way of the Dodo Bird.” No more Chipotle or Carl’s Jr? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 15 January 2016

Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Arizona: Sears Holdings shutting down the Glendale Kmart, no word on job losses.

California: After almost 60 years Belmont Iceland indoor ice skating rink shutting down in April.  Despite an average of 10-thousand customers per month the owners says skyrocketing operating costs (including $1-million USD in necessary upgrades if they stay open) are too much.  In Los Angeles, advertising agency CB+B eliminating 4% of their jobs due to the loss of their contract with restaurant chain Applebee’s.  Inside the hotel Montage Beverly Hills, restaurant Scarpetta shutting down sometime in Spring to be replaced with food service that can remain open all daylong.  Carpinteria based burger joint Carl’s Jr. shutdown two Canadian restaurants in Toronto, about 40 jobs lost.  Employees say they were not given a reason for the shutdowns, however, company administrators claim they will eventually open 30 new restaurants across the Great White North.

Colorado: Denver based Chipotle Mexican Grill is shutting down all its restaurant across the United States in February!  It’s blamed on the ongoing and unexplained microbial infections in numerous restaurants.  However, administrators claim the shutdown is for one day only and is basically a ‘come to Jesus meeting’ for employees about food safety (that’s right, blame the employees), never mind that Chipotle’s sales have crashed 40% in 2015!  The massive nationwide one day shutdown will massively affect sales as well.

Connecticut: Fairfield based industrial giant General Electric (GE) sold-off its home appliance business to China for $5.4-billion USD!  GE is also moving its Fairfield HQ to Boston Weak, Massachusetts.

Florida:   Professional Transportation issued multiple WARNs, 254 people becoming jobless by March!  After 16 years the Freebird music joint in Jacksonville Beach shutting down.  Originally it was a restaurant then moved to having live bands, now the new owners will turn it into a surfing themed bar.  The National Deaf Academy shutting down between March and April after being hit with lawsuits alleging child abuse (administrators refused to give an official reason).

Georgia: Sears Holdings shutting down the Milledgeville and Rome Kmarts by mid-April, no word on how many jobs lost.  In Decatur, after 13 years CoreBody gym shutting down, the co-owners blame skyrocketing rent, taxes and utility bills, as well as lack of parking spaces where they’re located.

Hawaii: Shoe store Robins shutting down in the evil GGP owned (a former employer of mine) Ala Moana Center, no other info was reported.

Illinois:  God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Oak Park Saint Edmund Catholic School, due to crashing enrollments.   The state Department of Labor shutting down its Bloomington office blaming the federal Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act.  In Chicago, after 40 years The Alley boutique shutting down this weekend.  In Evanston, after 36 years eccentric gift store Eureka! shutting down, Bindy Bitterman the owner lamented “This is an old-fashioned freestanding shop that has gone the way of the Dodo Bird.”

Kentucky: What automotive industry recovery?  Without warning Sweden owned automotive bearing maker SFK (Svenska KullagerFabriken) shutdown their 20 years old Hebron factory, 145 jobs affected by the sudden consolidation of work to SFK’s factory in Tennessee!

Maryland: Iconic Beyda’s Lad & Lassie clothing store shutting down by February, blame property development.

Michigan:  385 jobs lost as jobs contractor British empire India owned/Canada based Minacs shuts down their Farmington Hills office!  Administrators blame it on the sudden loss of a major client.  Proof the economy sucks and families are homeless and starving! Feeding America is shutting down two food warehouses because they’re too small, administrators say they need bigger locations to meet the huge demand: “…the need has grown over the last decade…We know we have the ability to fully meet the need…To put it simply, we’ve outgrown these facilities.”-Ken Estelle, Feeding America West Michigan CEO

Mississippi:  A Tronox chemical factory shutting down in Monroe County, at least 70 contracted jobs lost by the end of the month.

Nebraska:  Grocery seller SpartanNash announced the shutdown of three Omaha area stores, under the brands Bag-n-Save and No Frills, hundreds of jobs lost!  It could be because Michigan based SpartanNash is spending $14-million USD to renovate eight other stores into their new Family Fare brand.

Nevada:  In Las Vegas, after less than six years Blackbird Studios shutting down.  Despite news media and fans claiming the artistic venue is a “critical success” the owner says she’s not making money and is several months behind on her rent payments!  Yet a third solar power panel company is getting the hell outta The Silver State (after anti solar panel regs were passed, which actually penalize homeowners for installing them).  Go Solar, a Las Vegas based company, is laying off 17 people and reducing hours for the rest of their employees.   Scott Shaw, a Go Solar exec, says that since the new anti-solar panel regulations were announced “We’ve gone from five installations a week to zero!”  Between Go Solar, SunRun and SolarCity the new anti-solar panel regulations will cause Nevada to lose about 2-thousand jobs!

New Jersey: In Moorestown, after 48 years the owner of Peter Pan Gift Shop and TR Bell Gifts shutting them both down due to crashed sales and jacked rents: “You open the newspapers and it’s coupons, coupons. People now don’t seem to be as concerned about customer service, which is what little stores offer. They’re really more concerned with price. … The little guy can’t make rent. My public service bill runs $2,500 a month. It’s a 6,000-square-foot building.”-Melody Manning

New York: Jefferson County shutting down the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) office on Fort Drum by the end of the month, blaming a shift to internet operations.  Too Big to Jail Goldman Sachs announced more job cuts, this time about 250 people will be let go by March!  Apparently the mass job losses are not connected to Goldman’s $5.1-billion USD settlement over charges Goldman rigged mortgage deals they knew would go bad!  Home decor and clothing branding company Sequential Brands Group revealed to state employment administrators that they shutdown their NYC ops last week, 134 jobs affected!  Within the past 24 hours stock analysts were boasting that Sequential Brands Group will double in value this year.  This is the same company that took over the Martha Stewart brand and killed jobs there in 2014-15.  In Manhattan’s Upper East Side restaurant David Burke Fishtail shutting down this weekend due to the greedy landlord.  News reports say it’s the third David Burke restaurant to shutdown in less than a year.  Orleans Community Health announced layoffs for Medina Memorial Hospital starting February, ObamaCare forced it to become a ‘Critical Access Hospital’ treating less patients, meaning less employees.  Netherlands based food wholesaler Ahold shutting down its Lancaster and Cheektowaga warehouse operations, 602 jobs lost by August!  Ahold joins the mass exodus from The Empire State and is consolidating warehousing to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.   In NYC, after 12 years Fontana’s bar shutting down, the pissed owners saying “It has become increasingly hard to be an independent business in New York city without compromising your vision. Choices get made due to economic strain and we are no longer willing to bend to that pressure. We set out to operate a neighborhood rock bar and that has become economically unfeasible.”  

Ohio: More proof high-tech is not recession resistant.    Digital Works shutdown their high-tech skills training programs in Logan, Lynchburg, Middleport, Portsmouth and West Union.  The training program was started in 2013 with taxpayer funding, that taxpayer funding ended in 2015.     

More proof virtual reality and ObamaCare is not recession resistant; after four years virtual telemedicine health provider connector HealthSpot now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and being liquidated.  The plan was to set up remote kiosks in which people could access medical coverage help under this ObamaCare regime.  However, despite raising $48-million USD and building 191 kiosks, 137 of those kiosks are still sitting in storage unused!  The other 54 kiosks that were set up in retail locations, like RiteAid, are not in use.

Oregon: After only three years Go Kart Hero suddenly shutdown and began refunding members’ money.

Pennsylvania: Sears Holdings shutting down the Exton Kmart, no word on job losses.  Global legal firm Reed Smith eliminating 45 jobs, despite reporting $1-billion in revenues for 2015.  Administrators say they’re making the job cuts because the future of the economy is not looking good: “The legal industry has experienced a fundamental shift in the nature of the demand….Like all profitable businesses, Reed Smith must be attentive to market demand and industry changes and make necessary adjustments to remain competitive.” 

South Dakota:  The STAR Academy child prison laying off 47 employees in 2017.  It’s part of the state government’s plan to reduce the number of children held prisoner in an attempt to cut $32-million USD in costs over the next five years.

Texas: The Corpus Christi Army Depot announced more layoffs, contractor ManCom eliminating 46 jobs, and contractor URS eliminating 25 jobs, due to reduced taxpayer spending.

Virginia:  Sears Holdings shutting down the Cedar Bluff, Covington and Virginia Beach Kmarts by mid-April, more than 1-hundred jobs lost!   God refuses to stop ‘his’ Southern Baptist International Mission Board from eliminating 30 jobs.  It’s the result of the Christian recruitment ops’ shutdown of their Richmond Communications Center.

Washington:  Reports say Vancouver based non-profit healthcare provider PeaceHealth will layoff at least 150 employees across Alaska, Washington and Oregon by the end of the month!  It’s an attempt by PeaceHealth to remain financially viable under ObamaCare.

Wisconsin: In Racine, clothier Jos A. Bank shutting down their 13 years old Regency Mall store by the end of the month.  The store manager told local news media she was not given a reason by corporate.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

14 January 2016:  “Walmart won.” 

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.”