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Business/Economics, Idaho

“We cannot remain solvent” Haggen kills off 5,000 jobs! Cabela’s starts killing jobs! More proof iconic Coke is going down? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 25 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alaska: Mexico is getting out, shutting down their consulate in Anchorage by the end of November.  It’s blamed on lack of Mexicans in Alaska who need consular services.

Arizona: University of Arizona eliminating 320 jobs, blaming massive state taxpayer funding cuts!  Bankrupt busted Washington based Haggen Foods announced it will shutdown all its Grand Canyon State grocery stores that it was tricked into buying from Albertsons-Safeway!  Shutdown list

California: Bankrupt busted Washington based Haggen Foods announced it will shutdown all its Golden State grocery stores that it was tricked into buying from Albertsons-Safeway!  shutdown list   Affordable Care Act killing off Santa Barbara based plastic surgery supplier Mentor Worldwide as it issued a layoff WARN, 81 jobs lost before Thanksgiving.  Also in Santa Barbara, MCC BB Property issued a layoff WARN, 23 people jobless before Thanksgiving.    Evil debt collector EOS CCA issued a WARN saying it will shutdown its Novato office and layoff 45 people right before Thanksgiving.  Like other corporations they are consolidating their operations.  Western Digital issued a mass layoff WARN saying 143 people in Irvine will become jobless right before Thanksgiving!  In Santa Ana, student loan processor Zenith Education Group laying off 18 people by the beginning of November. Bankrupt busted surf clothier Quicksilver laid off 77 people in Huntington Beach.  In Cupertino, Seagate laying off more employees, this time 62 right before Thanksgiving.  In San Jose, Cisco Systems laid off 20 people.  In San Ramon, AT&T issued a mass layoff WARN saying 219 people will lose their jobs by the end of the month!  Japan based GREE International finally revealed they laid off 114 people in San Francisco, back in July!   Santa Clara based Marvell Tech announced it will eliminate 17% of its global jobs, and immediately investors drove the price of the company’s stock skyward!  In Long Beach, home for troubled kids Bayfront being shutdown by state regulators for numerous “violations”.   In San Luis Obispo, after ten years Monterey Street Wine quietly shutdown.  In Willits, the Wowser rental production space (“Maker Space”) shutdown due to lack of understanding of its purpose.  Berkeley based Peet’s Coffee announced they are shutting down three shops in Illinois and four in Wisconsin, 1-hundred jobs lost: “After nearly a one-year assessment of our Illinois and Wisconsin stores, we’ve decided to focus on our top-performing locations. As a result, we are closing three stores in Illinois and four stores in Wisconsin on September 27.” 

Connecticut: After 26 years the Party Bazaar in Clinton shutting down by the end of the month.

Florida: Too Big to Jail finance and insurance company Ceridian issued a WARN saying 101 people in Saint Petersburg will lose their jobs between November and April 2016!

Georgia:  Once an icon of U.S. capitalism around the world, Atlanta based Coca-Cola announced it will sell-off nine U.S. bottling factories in an attempt to generate $380-million USD in much needed cash!  Those nine factories account for 95% of Coke’s production volume in the United States!  Administrators are also trying to consolidate operations to create a more efficient National Product Supply System in an attempt to drive down operating costs. Essentially, they don’t think the economy is going to improve anytime soon.  Reports say Atlanta based electronic payment company BitPay conducting mass layoffs as part of radical restructuring of its Free Plan.

Idaho: Once again this year, in order to generate more funding for public schools the state Department of Lands is auctioning-off  Priest Lake vacation lots, nine this time.   It was revealed that the main reason the auctions aren’t going so well is because many of the properties are actually ocupado: “I know that people are hesitant to bid against a person that built it and currently occupies the structure and still wants it.”-Sid Anderson, Dept. of Lands

The Right to Work (you over) lawsuit happy gov’na Butch Otter is screwing Gem State taxpayers over again by suing the federal government over their new sage grouse rules!  And the drought is so bad in Idaho that taxpayers are being forced by the Idaho Water Resource Board to fund $200-thousand USD worth of cloud seeding ops.

Illinois: In Meredosia, vinyl acetate company Celanese shutting down right before Xmas, at least 46 jobs lost.   The owner of Bud’s Skyline Inn revealed the Quad City International Airport bought his property and could be shutting down the hotel in a “few weeks”.  In Elgin, after almost 50 years the Gasthaus Bar & Grill shutdown due to crashing sales after A-hole christian extremist city administrators amended their liquor license.

Louisiana: Non-profit Louisiana Health Cooperative has been bullied by state and federal Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) regulators to shutdown “voluntarily”!  You should realize that ObamaCare was written by the for-profit insurance industry, and they don’t like competition!

Massachusetts:  It’s been revealed that law firm Locke Lord Edwards ‘lost’ or laid off 23 employees since April.

Minnesota: US Steel announced another round of layoffs at its Keetac factory.  Many of the 412 employees to be laid off by October!

Nebraska: Omaha based food giant ConAgra warned of mass layoffs as part of its plan to shift food production from Nebraska to Illinois. Outdoor adventure supply store Cabela’s announced it will eliminate up to 1-hundred jobs from corporate ops in Sidney, Denver and Lincoln!  Residents of Sidney told local news that they are pissed because they gave Cabela’s a lot of tax breaks to bring jobs into the area.  In Lincoln, clothing store Schweser’s shutting down after Xmas: “We have seen a drop in sales in some of our stores over the past few years that has been difficult to overcome. Our expenses continue to rise, including the cost of goods, and our sales have not kept pace in some locations.”-Tyler Smith

New York: At LaGuardia Airport, Command Security Corporation lost its contract with United Airlines, 108 jobs lost before Xmas!  State and federal Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) regulators shutdown non-profit Health Republic Insurance.  News reports say it’s the fourth non-profit insurance co-op in the United States shutdown by ObamaCare regulators!

North Carolina: The Biscoe Food Lion grocery store just gave its employees a 12 days notice of shutdown!

Ohio: Clintonville Community Market Co-Op shutting down due to radical changes in the ‘natural food’ segment of the grocery store industry: “This changing marketplace has created a decline in sales for our co-op that has intensified over the last two years, and the trend continues. We cannot remain solvent in this situation. The ethical and responsible act is to close the store.” 

Pennsylvania:  PBS member WQED laid off at least 17 people and is drastically cutting pay for everybody else.  Administrators of the donation funded TV service said they’re trying to eliminate $5-million in debt over the next 15 years!

Virginia: In Virginia Beach, family owned hotel and restaurant The Belvedere shutdown.  Supposedly the family is building a new bigger hotel.

Washington: Bankrupt busted Bellingham based Haggen Foods announced it will shutdown at least 127 of the 146 grocery stores (shutdown list) that it was tricked into buying by Albertsons-Safeway, more than 5-thousand jobs will be lost across several west coast states!

24 September 2015: Caterpillar to kill additional 10,000 jobs!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Foreign Jews takeover 7th biggest U.S. cable company, layoffs next! Heavy vehicle maker to kill additional 10,000 jobs! Military charges taxpayers for sex! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 24 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Qatari based Al-Jazeera news network eliminating 1-thousand jobs around the world, including the United States!  It’s blamed on oil prices.

Florida: After 11 years the Big E’s Gourmet Coffee & Sweets shutdown because the owner has been offered more money to manage a Starbucks.  Local news reports say the owner will make in one year at the Starbucks what he was making in four years running his own restaurant! 

Idaho: The Idaho Water Resource Board is returning a $4-million USD investment made by four large water districts into the Hagerman Valley pipeline project because several smaller water districts decided to take on a loan to cover the costs.  Apparently it has something to do with water access rights issues and the ongoing drought, as usual Idaho news sources weren’t very good at explaining it.  Amalgamated Sugar, in Twin Falls, reports record level sugar beet harvested under contract.  Idaho is the second largest producer of sugar beets for sugar production in the U.S., the record harvest should keep the prices for White Satin brand sugar down.

Illinois: More proof the economy is not going to recover anytime soon.  After hundreds of layoffs this year heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar announced another 10-thousand jobs, at the very least, will be eliminated by the end of 2018!  Administrators also indicated the number of layoffs could end up being higher than 10-thousand! It’s blamed on crashing and burning sales (three years in a row).  In Obama homietown Chicago, Obama stooge Rahm Emanuel is threatening massive police and firefighter layoffs if residents aren’t willing to be raped up the ass with massive tax increases! This is on top of the 5-thousand Chicago Public School layoffs! Reports say the Obama regime wants to jack up Chicago tax revenues by $588-million USD over four years!  By the way, school employees threaten massive civil “chaos” if the Obama regime goes through with the massive CPS layoffs!

Iowa: What housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail Owens Financing laying off 3-hundred people at its Waterloo mortgage operations!

Michigan: In Ann Arbor, after 20 years the S3 Safe Sex Store shutdown. The owner blames the internet for her crashing sales.

Minnesota: In Minneapolis, Mattie’s restaurant shutdown.  Four Planet Beach spas suddenly shutdown, the franchise owners now bankrupt busted claiming they have only $11,200 in assets compared to $1.4-million in debts!  In Lake Park, after 60 years the Strandvik Lutheran Church shutting down by January 2016.  It’s blamed on The Rapture, I mean the membership has dwindled to about ten people showing up on Sundays.

New Mexico: Texas based ConocoPhilips confirmed that employees in The Land of Enchantment will be part of the oil company’s plan to eliminate 1-thousand 8-hundred jobs!

New York: Oyster Bay based Cablevision is now owned by the French Jews!  News reports called it a “surprise move”.  Get ready for mass layoffs as the new owner said Cablevison has “many layers of highly paid people and this will change.”  In the Bronx, Key Food shutting down its Soundview grocery store in October after the greedy property owner revoked the lease.

Ohio:  The Firestone Park IGA grocery store shutting down in October, saying it’s not worth it to renew the lease.  It’s blamed on competition and increased operating costs caused by ObamaCare insurance.

South Carolina: The Blind Tiger Pub in Charleston shutdown and for sale. The owner can’t renew the lease.

South Dakota: After 81 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) the family owned Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns shutdown and up for sale.  The current owner blames it on the fact that he seems to be the last in the family that still wants to operate the popular tourist attraction.

Texas: In Denison, after 82 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) shutdown.  Despite the ongoing illegal and undeclared War on Terror the VFW shutdown is blamed on lack of veterans!  In Austin, the Lakeview Apartments being torn down by the end of the month.  Residents were given a one month notice to vacate by greedy property developers, some residents had just moved in.  It’s being replaced by a new apartment complex targeted towards rich people.

Virginia: In Alexandria, the Del Ray Variety store shutting down by the end of the year.  A reason has yet to be given.

Washington:  Norway based solar company REC Silicon warned it might shutdown its Moses Lake factory, eliminating 4-hundred jobs,  if the dumb United States and China can’t stop their trade disputes!

Washington DC: The Department of Defense is investigating why military personnel were allowed to charge taxpayers for sex and gambling.  This is not the first time taxpayer funded government credit cards were used for such things.  The Inspector General found that between 2013 and 2014 $1-million USD were spent at casinos and on ‘adult entertainment’!

23 September 2015: “We just can’t get the…business to function.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

“We just can’t get the…business to function.” “trend is expected to accelerate” Citigroup says Boston too Weak to do business! Debt collector bites the dust? ObamaCare kills hospitals owned by doctors! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 23 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: After 20 years the recently schizophrenic (constantly changing  its menu) Cow Hollow’s Betelnut restaurant  shutting down, the greedy property owner did not want to renew the lease.

Colorado: In Colorado Springs, hand tool maker Western Forge WARNed of “a strong possibility” of 150 layoffs over the next seven months!  Evil debt collector EOS CCA issued a WARN saying it will shutdown its Denver office and layoff 60 people right before Thanksgiving.  Like other corporations they are consolidating their operations.

Idaho: What construction industry recovery? Aecom Technology reported to kill off the last of Boise based construction company Morrison-Knudsen, the remaining 75 jobs lost between now and Xmas.

Illinois: Springfield’s Hope Institute for Children and Families ending its autism program due to the state ‘lawmakers’ suspending the taxpayer funding.

Indiana: The Mishawaka OfficeMax shutting down in time for Thanksgiving, about 20 jobs lost.  Pall Filter Specialists issued a shutdown WARN for their 43 years old Michigan City factory, 28 jobs lost before Thanksgiving.

Massachusetts: Too Big to Jail Citigroup shutting down six Boston Weak offices and another 11 offices around the state.   Citigroup actually said the 650-thousand+ population of Boston isn’t big enough for its new business model: “In Boston, Citi’s retail banking presence does not provide such scale so we are reallocating resources.”  

New Mexico: The Albuquerque OfficeMax on Wyoming NE shutting down in time for Thanksgiving, about 20 jobs lost.  After more than 40 years the Alpine Sausage Kitchen shutting down by the end of the month.  The owners said the bad economy is a sign they need to retire.  In a sign that the growing popularity of food trucks is actually destroying brick-n-mortar restaurants, the Albuquerque city council created a law saying food trucks must stay at least 100 feet from any brick-n-mortar op.  After only three months, Witch’s Brew coffee shop shutdown blaming money problems.

New York: In NYC, Toys “R” Us – Delaware issued a shutdown and mass layoff WARN, saying 373 people will become jobless right after Xmas!  Iconic Trinity Boxing Club shutting down due to the rent being jacked up, the new landlord wants $60-thousand USD per month!!!  E-book operator Oyster is no more as Google hired away most of the talent.   In Rochester, after eight years baby boutique Luvaboos shutting down  once everything is sold.  It’s blamed on internet competition and one of the co-owners is going to make more money as a teacher.

Oklahoma: In Enid, after 21 years Soccer World shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone.

Ohio:  What automotive industry recovery?  Troubled bearing maker Kyklos Bearing International (KBI) issued a mass layoff WARN saying 177 people will be laid off after Thanksgiving!  In June KBI agreed to pay a fine of $50-thousand USD regarding discrimination against disabled people, and in February employees warned of a plant shutdown if the union and corporate weenie heads didn’t agree to new wage terms.  Hydraulic gear pump maker Parker Hannifin says it has to shutdown its Youngstown factory over the next 18 months due to global competition, 137 jobs lost!  In Lima, the famous Hawthorne Hills golf course shutting down after 52 years: “We just can’t get the course as a business to function.”-Paul Scheiwiller, co-owner

Oregon: After 80 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Shleifer Furniture shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone, because the owner sold the property.  Supposedly the new property owner is going to renovate the building that was built in Gregorian year 1906.

Pennsylvania: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia owned SABIC Innovative Plastics shutting down its Thorndale factory, at least 51 jobs lost.  The company explanation also revealed no local economic recovery is expected: “Over the past several years, SABIC’s customer base, who purchase unique LNP compounds, is increasingly located in the Pacific, and this trend is expected to accelerate….” 

Rhode Island: After 70 years clothier Wilson’s of Wickford shutdown blaming “very difficult economic times and many personal challenges”.

Tennessee: In Maryville, after 45 years Dubb’s Restaurant shutdown due to the death of one of the co-owners.

Texas: An accidentally leaked internal memo from oil giant Halliburton revealed more layoffs in the works, this time targeting management.  Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forced upscale doctor owned for-profit Forest Park Medical Center at Frisco to go chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  According to a local news report “…a tightening of a pre-existing law under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, essentially bans physician-owned facilities such as Forest Park from receiving Medicare and Medicare reimbursements…”

Wisconsin:  W.D. Hoard & Sons shutting down its printing ops due to the merger with Royle Printing, 33 jobs lost.   In Milwaukee, after ten years the Buckhead Saloon shutting down. The owner swears he’ll re-open as soon as he can figure out a new plan.  

22 September 2015: Grocery store kills 13,097 jobs in one state!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

A & P kills 13,097 jobs! ObamaCare rates killing minimum wage increases! Massive 50% rent increase coming despite massive layoffs! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 22 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson warns that the Chinese economy has “run out of steam”!

Arkansas: After about 70 years the Crossland Zoo suddenly shutdown by the Crossett city council, who apparently did not involve public comment regarding the decision.  News reports say residents are pissed.

California: Menlo Park based Kaiser Family Foundation just released their study of the effects of Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) insurance rates and concluded that in 2014 insurance rates through employers went up an average of 4% yet wages averaged only a 1.9% increase.  Many insurance companies have already warned of rate hikes by as much as 30% for 2016!  In Fresno, after five years family owned Swiggs Sliders & Wings shutdown, blaming increased competition, increased costs (specifically ObamaCare insurance and minimum wage) and declining sales.  Local news reports revealed the location is a revolving door for dozens of past restaurants.

Delaware: Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) the final straw in forcing the taxpayer funded nursing home Emily P. Bissell Hospital to shutdown.   The nursing home was plagued with problems from faulty water pipes to declining number of customers.  But news reports say the patients aren’t happy with their new homes either, saying many were told their new nursing homes were just temporary when they really aren’t.

Florida: In Miami, after one year restaurant  Morimoto South Beach shutting down by the end of the month.  In Jacksonville, a restaurant described as a popular hangout for politicians, Two Doors Down, is shutting down due to greedy property owners/developers.

Idaho: State Department of Labor admitted that the unemployment rate went up in The Gem State, blaming a net loss of 4-hundred jobs in August!

Illinois: Chicago based internet couponing company Groupon announced it will kill 1-thousand 1-hundred jobs over the next year, as it ends operations in six countries!  Groupon is also selling-off 45% of its Republic of Korea ops. Rodan Asian Fusion Lounge suddenly shutdown after 12 years, a former manager blames the greedy landlord for jacking up the rent.  The Bloomington OfficeMax shutting down in time for Thanksgiving, 20 jobs lost.

Indiana: In Fort Wayne, after 20 years Conser Music instrument store shutting down in October.  The owner said that demand for music lessons peaked between 2002-07, then crashed once the Great Recession started, with no recovery in sight.

Maryland:  Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing taxpayer funded Dimensions Healthcare System’s non-profit Laurel Regional Hospital to eliminate an additional 84 jobs before Thanksgiving, on top of the 38 already laid off. It’s part of a bigger plan to turn the hospital into a smaller outpatient clinic (which means even more job losses).  After 35 years the Ocean City The Bookshelf Etc. bookstore shutdown, it’s going to be turned into a seafood store.

Massachusetts: Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) and Enterprise Community Partners are warning that U.S. residents who rent are about to experience a more than 50% increase in payments between now and 2025!  This new report comes a month after Washington state based Zillow called current rents “crazy”.

Nevada: Proof even the rich are cutting back on spending; in Las Vegas after ten years the local Penske Wynn Ferrari Maserati dealer shutting down before the end of the year.

New Hampshire: Rymes Propane & Oil shutting down three of its four fuel stations!  Administrators blame new laws that would force them to spend money upgrading their fuel stations, and they say it’s not worth it.

New York: Bankrupt grocery store operator The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P, Pathmark, Waldbaums, Liquor Store, Food Emporium, Food Basics) updated the number of people in The Empire State who’ll become unemployed very soon; at least 13-thousand and 97!   Union Springs Board of Education shutting down two elementary schools before the next school year, blaming what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.  However, could the real reason be that the school board wants to spend $8.2-million USD on a new project?   After many financial troubles internet based invention company Quirky now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Reports say Flextronics wants to take over Quirky’s Wink division.  Too Big to Jail evil JPMorganChase accuses the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans of being the now banned subprime type: “FHA requirements are down to a 520 FICO and you only have to put 3.5% down; that’s subprime lending…”

Pennsylvania: Ohio based natural gas company Stingray Pressure Pumping laying off 25 people in Washington County right before Thanksgiving.

Texas: In Wichita Falls, Peerless Manufacturing revealed they shutdown their seven years old factory last week, blaming the oil industry.  60 jobs lost.

Washington: Colorado based oil and gas engineering company CH2M announced they’re shutting down their Bellingham office blaming decreasing profits.

21 September 2015: “We need to move on, too.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

“We need to move on, too.” Donald Trump shuts down 126 years old military alma mater? Disney kills ESPN? : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 21 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Colorado: Troubled ECMC Group shutting down their Zenith Education Group student loan call center in Thornton, 137 jobs lost right before Xmas!   Local news reports say that at one time the call center had more than 3-hundred employees.

Connecticut: More proof unAmerican corporate America does not see economic recovery! Disney has ordered its Bristol based sports channel ESPN to eliminate $350-million USD worth of jobs (about 200 to 300 jobs) over the next two years!

Delaware: The state Department of Labor says unemployment went up in August due to normal summertime layoffs.

Florida: In Jacksonville, CACI Integrated Security Solutions issued a WARN saying 51 employees will be laid off right before Thanksgiving.

Illinois: In Alton, after only three years Santa Cruz Imports and Exports shutting down in November.  The owner said he’s too busy with his rental properties and construction company.

Kansas: In Emporia, after 24 years the Town Crier Bookstore shutting down in October.  The owners are reported to have said “We need to move on, too.”

Massachusetts: The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) trend of consolidation/mergers in the healthcare industry is shutting down two nursing homes that’ve survived the Great (deflationary) Depression and numerous recessions; the 150 years old Merrimack River Valley House and the 87 years old Horn Home.  

New York: The 126 years old (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) bankrupt busted New York Military Academy shutdown after a planned sale fell through. It’s blamed on DSS, in 2014 enrollment fell to less than 1-hundred.  Donald Trump was a student at the privately funded school but actually refused to bail out his alma mater on the grounds it was a losing business proposition!  Daikin Applied issued a 9th round layoff WARN for their Auburn HVAC facility, to take place in December.  Daikin is shutting down by April 2016, eliminating a total of 310 jobs!  Drugs maker Pfizer issued a WARN for yet another round of layoffs at its Rouses Point ops, they expect to be shutdown by December.  In East Hampton, Waldbaum’s grocery store shutting down.  Turn’s out Waldbaum’s was owned by now bankrupt and dying Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company.  The new owner, Stop & Shop Supermarket, decided it wasn’t worth it to keep the Waldbaum’s open.

North Carolina: Charlotte based Too Big to Jail Bank of America warned of another round of mass layoffs, this time ‘only’ 1-thousand people will become jobless!  The jobs are connected to fixed income, currencies and commodities ops.  After 21 years the Tremont Music Hall shutting down after Xmas.  Local news reports blame greedy property developers.

North Dakota:  Local news sources discovered that oilfield service company Halliburton had eliminated jobs at its Williston office.  When cornered Halliburton administrators would only confirm the layoffs but refused to give numbers.

Pennsylvania: More proof unAmerican corporate America sees no recovery soon!   Redner’s Warehouse Market grocery store shutting down in Trexlertown, 74 jobs lost.  After 25 years of sales the administrators said renewing the lease was not “beneficial nor profitable in the foreseeable future.”

Texas: Houston based Marathon Oil announced 40 more layoffs, on top of the 4-hundred they already laid off.  Administrators also said they won’t be drilling any new exploratory wells in 2016.

Virginia: Evil British empire U.S. tax-sucking military contractor BAE eliminating 650 jobs in Norfolk! Administrators blame a reduction in work for the USN.  Bristol based mining company Alpha Natural Resources announced 96 more layoffs at three mines in Dickenson County.

Wisconsin: In Port Washington, after 79 years on-going construction projects forced iconic Harry’s restaurant to shutdown.   The building the restaurant is located in will be replaced with condominiums.

19 – 20 September 2015: more and more citizens think we’re about to go to hell in hand basket! 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

Idaho preppers drive up sales! “unhealthy unemployment” reason Fed Reserve not raising interest rates! Obama regime threatens 5,000 jobs in Chicago! Florida torturing & billing prisoners to fund prison ops! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 19 – 20 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Alaska: Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims.

Connecticut: God’s British empire based Salvation Army shutting down their Manchester Thrift Store by the end of the month.  The Salvation Army joining other evil corporations in the consolidation trend.

Florida: The Sunshine State has entered the dark age when it comes to funding prisons: “They charged me for me being in prison!”-Jeremy Barrett, former prisoner who also had one of his eyes gouged out for stealing a potato from the prison kitchen!

“I was floored. It’s an astronomical number. It’s almost laughable.”-Dee Taylor billed $55-thousand USD for being in state prison

Idaho: Survivalism is driving up sales for some Idaho Falls businesses.  The Post Journal reports a spike in sales over the past six weeks.  The journalist said none of the preppers wanted to talk to him, but at one store “One woman bought almost $2,000 worth of merchandise and another purchased about $400 worth of items.”  On one hand it’s a good thing because sales are up, on the other hand it’s bad because more and more citizens think we’re about to go to hell in hand basket!

Illinois: The Obama regime controlled Chicago Public Schools (CPS)  warned of 5-thousand more job cuts despite massive layoffs already! The layoffs would take place right before Thanksgiving!  Obama regime CPS administrators claim that $480-million USD in state funding has never shown up (yeah right)!  What automotive industry recovery?  Japan based Mitsubishi said if nobody wants to buy their Normal factory by November they’re going ahead with plans to shut it down and render 1,250 employees jobless!

Indiana: Trucking company Triple Crown Services eliminating 2-hundred jobs!  It’s blamed on parent company Norfolk Southern’s “restructuring”.   In Georgetown, ice cream shop Polly’s Freeze shutdown after 63 years.  It’s up for sale to help fund the owners’ retirements, who say they can no longer physically run the business.

Maine: Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims.  After 87 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Smart’s Hardware being merged with competitor Aubuchon Hardware: “Boody and I want to pass the business on while we are healthy. We didn’t want to leave a mess behind for our families, and we didn’t have anyone come along that wanted to run the business.”-Larry Smart, co-owner

Maryland: In Frederick, after 1-hundred years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) God refused to stop ‘his’ Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church from shutting down.  It’s blamed on The Rapture, I mean dwindling membership.

Minnesota:  Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims.

Nebraska: In Beatrice, pharmacy The Medicine Shoppe shutdown without warning.  No explanation why it shutdown, but apparently Shopko is taking over the pharmacy ops.

North Dakota: Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims.

Oklahoma:   Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims.

Pennsylvania:   In Sharon, the James E. Winner Jr. Arts and Culture Center shutdown.  The operators say the building they were in was too big, they need a smaller space.

Texas:   Austin based internet job search company Indeed reports that 36 states have unemployment that is still higher than before the 2008 ‘Great Recession’, and 14 of those states meet the Federal Reserve’s definition of “unhealthy unemployment”!

Virginia: Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims.

Washington DC: Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims.

Wyoming:  Federal Department of Labor reports an increase in new unemployment claims. 

18 September 2015: “I’m paying the state …so I can work for free!” 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

“…it’s going to get worse!” “I’m paying the state of California so I can work for free!” Haggen accuses Albertsons of Sabotage! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 18 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: What housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail San Francisco based Wells Fargo eliminating 182 mortgage jobs across the country, due to crashing demand.  New York based Time Warner Cable eliminating 30 jobs relating to its southern California sports channels.   Texas based oilfield service company Halliburton announced a third round of layoffs.  54 people in Bakersfield being laid off due to “current business conditions”.   In Redding, rabbit food server Sky’s Pure Food restaurant shutting down, unless vegan fans can donate enough money for the owner to pay her debts. In Rancho Cordova, medical device maker Cesca Therapeutics reports that Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) might have caused them to lose $2.4-million USD in their 4th quarter! They’ve already laid off 15 people and more layoffs could happen.   In Lemore, yummy tri-tip Gunny’s Sandwich Shop shutting down due to increasing costs including increased minimum wage and taxes: “Water cost more, everything that you purchase costs more…farm workers…with less crop production means less people to come eat my sandwiches…what I was going to pay in taxes…I’m paying the state of California so I can work for free!”-Max Vernon, one pissed-off former Marine

Florida:  In Miami Beach, The Shelborne Wyndham Grand Hotel issued a shutdown WARN for their food service ops, 89 people will be laid off right before Thanksgiving.

Georgia: In Augusta, Henry Brothers Antique Auctions shutting down by November. They’re leasing out their building to a new tenant, with an option to buy.

Idaho: More taxpayer rapeing was revealed in The Gem State.  This time an internal investigation revealed that all taxpayer funded “therapeutic community” programs in Idaho prisons had no effect on reducing the chances that an ex-con would re-offend: “We know it’s going to make some judges mad and we know it’s going to make some people mad. But why would we keep putting our money into something that isn’t working?”-Kevin Kempf, state prison boss

Idaho Farm Bureau reports that overall crop production is up, but revenues for farmers are crashing by 30% because commodity prices are going through the floor! The crashing revenues will affect Idaho’s Ag industry which employees 100-thousand people in a state that has about 1.5-million residents.

Illinois: State taxpayer funding cuts forcing non-profit Fox Valley Older Adult Services to shutdown their DeKalb and Aurora ops.

Kansas: The child prison known as Clarence Kelley Youth Center shutting down, the good news it that it sounds like it’s due to a lack of prisoners (currently only 15).

Kentucky: In Louisville, a KingFish restaurant shutting down its Blankenbaker Parkway location. The owners of the 70 years old restaurant chain are spending $1-million renovating two other restaurants.

Massachusetts: In Boston Weak: “After 14 years of never once having to lay off an employee, we had to as the result of the Subway loss. It was very difficult and we had to let people go that we loved and have worked with together for years.”-Fred Bertino, ad agency McCarthy Mambro Bertino (MMB)

Minnesota:  In Minneapolis, the long lived Masa restaurant shutdown, apparently the corporate owners didn’t like the new lease terms.

Missouri: Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing Truman Medical Center to shutdown their behavioral health emergency room services on East 24th Street.  Administrators said as a result of regulations from state and federal agencies, and declining payments, “It just made more sense to shut this down.”

Montana: 140 jobs lost when the Barrick Golden Sunlight Mine shuts down in November: “You know, it’s not making for a very pleasant day. It’s not good news to anybody.”-Dan Banghart, mine manager

New York: Too Big to Jail JP Morgan Chase issued a shutdown WARN for its Chase’s Consumer & Community Banking Operations in Garden City, 195 jobs lost right before Xmas!  In White Plains, AT&T issued a layoff WARN saying 42 people will be laid off right before Thanksgiving.

Ohio:  In Cincinnati, after 12 years Café deVine shutdown, the property owner is tearing down the building.  In Chardon, after 15 years Rosepointe Cottage Tea Room shutdown: “We have not been successful yet, but, I am hopeful that maybe one of you will know someone who would love to own the Tea Room! …..My plan is to close in late September if a buyer is not found.”-Mariann Goodwin

Pennsylvania:  US Steel warned of mass layoffs of salaried workers at its Pittsburgh HQ. No details given.  In Greensburg, after 31 years Art-Tech Supplies shutting down, the pissed-off owner blames the city itself: “Downtown Greensburg does not lend itself to retailing!…..It’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse!”-Cecilia Morreo.

Tennessee: Nine Palm Beach Tan salons shutdown in Knoxville area, without warning, 50 jobs lost.   The franchise owner walked away without explanation, and without paying the employees their final paycheck: “They put a sign on the door the other day that said we would be opening at 10 today. That was a lie, they knew we weren’t opening at all today!”-Katie House

“I have this apartment so I have to pay rent and everything next month, and I’m a little worried about buying groceries, which I was already struggling with before.”-Annah Dorsett

Utah: In Provo, after 53 years El Azteca restaurant shutting down by the end of the month: “It’s killing me, but I have to be realistic……..we just don’t have enough business, and literally every month we barely make it.”-Carlos Rubio, owner

Washington:  Bellingham based, and now bankrupt Haggen Foods announced the shutdown of 27 more grocery stores in Arizona and California (here’s the list).  It also claims that Alberstons-Safeway is supposed to hire back their own employees.  Haggen Foods was tricked into taking over 146 Albertsons stores, the deal turned out to be a pig in a poke, now Haggen is on the verge of total failure!  Haggen administrators are now suing Albertsons-Safeway on the grounds that the deal was an act of sabotage!

Wisconsin: What automotive industry recovery?  Auto parts maker Johnson Controls announced a new round of layoffs, this time 3-thousand people will get the axe over the next two years!  How’s that for confidence that the economy is recovering?  God can’t stop Right to Work (you over) Republicans from shutting down the Daughters of the Father Christian Academy.  Democrats are demanding an explanation. However, it seems the private ‘christian’ school was being funded with public secular tax dollars, which should be a violation of the 1st Amendment.

17 September 2015: “I’m going to cry….the business isn’t there anymore.” Corporate America declares War on Talent against workers over 34 years of age!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics, Idaho

“I’m going to cry….the business isn’t there anymore.” Eliminating older workers dubbed War for Talent! Mass incompetence in Jersey schools! A Idaho Right to Work over Unions law ruled illegal! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 17 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Japan based Sony is ending its facebook support for the PS3 and Vita.

California: In upscale elitist Montecito, after 30 years Lana Marme Last Resport clothing store shutting down.  San Diego news sources say the expected mass layoffs by Qualcomm will be in the thousands! Qualcomm employees about 12-thousand people in San Diego.   In Santa Monica, after 93 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Santa Monica Radiator shutdown: “We have had an amazing 93-year run in business…Operating the business has become extremely stressful. It’s much more difficult to be profitable.”-Chuck Perliter, a third-generation owner (remember, they survived the Great Depression and they say now it’s too hard to be profitable!)

In Huntington Beach, Yum! brands owned (spun-off from anti-gun Pepsi) Taco Bell shutting down their experimental fast-casual booze selling U.S. Taco Company restaurant due problems with booze licensing and lack of sales.   The Arcata Chamber of Commerce shutting down its California Welcome Center due to being $12-thousand USD in the hole.  All four Orange County Capriotti’s sandwich shops shutdown suddenly by the corporation: “Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop has decided to end a relationship with one of our franchisees.”-Ashley Morris, ceo

Georgia: In Savannah, Thrifty Hardware & Home Supply shutdown after almost 60 years. It’s been sold to fund the owner’s retirement.

Idaho: The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled the evil 2011 anti-unions law (given the Orwellian Double Speak title Fairness in Contracting Act) to be in violation of the federal National Labor Relations Act.  Because of lawsuits the law never went into effect.  The bad news is that yet again Idaho taxpayers are stuck paying the legal fees caused by their inept and evil ‘lawmakers’!

Idaho taxpayers will also have to pay for the burial fees for a female U.S. Navy veteran, as well as $70-thousand USD in legal fees.  The female vet wants to be buried along side her wife in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery, but ‘lawmakers’ forbade it due the fact the vets are the same sex.  However, after court battles Deputy Idaho Attorney General W. Scott Zanzig admitted “There is no question that the plaintiff is entitled to an award of fees and expenses under controlling law.”

Idaho ‘lawmakers’ have a long track record of losing court cases and then sticking taxpayers with the bill!  It’s proof that ‘lawmakers’ do not represent the ‘people’, because they’re obviously picking the wrong battles to fight in court.

More proof employers are shunning people over 35.  In Twin Falls it was reported that the growing food processing industry there will focus on hiring people ages 18 to 34 only.  Jan Rogers of Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization admitted that’s it’s also a national agenda.  The push to get rid of older workers has been dubbed by Jeff Sayer, director of Idaho Department of Labor, as The War for Talent.

To show you how ignorant the numbers crunchers are with the state Department of Labor, they expect 109-thousand jobs to be created over the next ten years. Sounds good, until you realize that they expect all those jobs to be filled by out-o-staters moving in.  In others words they are not concerned with the unemployed Idahoans currently struggling to find jobs!

Illinois:  In Chicago, after 13 years the Signal Ensemble theater shutdown.  After 41 years Variety Comics shutting down by the end of October, 40 years worth of comic iconica must be sold. In Kankakee, Germany based BASF shutting down its resin factory, 50 jobs lost.  Administrators admitted that their sales have been crashing for the past 15 years, before the Great Recession started.

Louisiana: A third round of layoffs being reported at the NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune.  37 jobs eliminated so far.  One former unnamed employee said he was laid off as he drove home from work: “By the time I got home and tried to check my email it had been deactivated.”  

What hurricane recovery?  In New Orleans, after four years critically praised farm-to-table restaurant Maurepas Foods shutting down by October: “We were just at a plateau. Every day I know exactly what I can buy from our farmers and I know the limits of what I can pay my staff, and I know that I’m not able to spend as much time with my family as I want to and keep it going.”-Michael Doyle  

Massachusetts: Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing Peabody based medical equipment maker Analogic to eliminate at least 90 U.S. jobs as they begin moving production to China!

Maryland:  Too Big to Jail BB&T (Branch Banking & Trust) eliminating 126 jobs in Hagerstown as a result of their $2.5-billion takeover of Susquehanna Bancshares!

Michigan: After 32 years Pete’s Stardust Family Restaurant shutdown, no explanation.   In Grand Rapids, the owners of Kilwins chocolates are suing their former landlord for forcing them to shutdown. They claim that Steadfast Property Holdings (note it’s an evil ‘holding’ company, the same type that helped cause the Great Depression) failed to maintain its air conditioning systems, causing the store’s inventory to melt.  Apparently Texas owned Adrian Mall is kicking out MC Sports: “I’m definitely not happy because we are a good store and I know our customers are disappointed too, but there’s not much we can do about it.”-Amy Gossman, associate manager

Minnesota:  Buck’s Furniture shutdown their last store, the owner blames his quality long lasting furniture and said economic times have radically changed: “Like many small, independent retailers, we’ve survived fires, some tough economic downturns, trends toward disposable furniture and Internet retailers, but we live in a new economic reality today. For a small furniture business to be competitive in the long-run you need deep pockets and repeat customers. So in some ways we created our own problem. We hear every day that our all-wood furniture lasts a long time.”-Ramon Buck

Montana: In Libby, Applied Materials consolidating to Kalispell, 17 jobs lost.  

Nebraska: In Omaha, after 80 years iconic Piccolo’s Restaurant shutdown. The restaurant was also known for its sign of the original owner which shows “He’s playing the piccolo wrong. He never played the piccolo and he’s playing it left handed because he was left handed and that’s not how you play the piccolo.”  The current owner and daughter of the original owner,Donna Sheehan, lamented “I’m going to cry. I didn’t want to do this. Sorry. We decided to end it because the business isn’t there anymore. We’ve tried everything but it’s just what happens. The chains come in and they just eat the little fish. We can’t compete with them. They have deep pockets. We do not.”

New Jersey: More proof of public administrator incompetence.  Over the Summer Paterson School District laid off 3-hundred people, blaming what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome!  After you include protest resignations and early retirements at least 535 jobs went away! Now those same exalted school administrators are scrambling to hire on people because it turned out they weren’t losing students, in fact their enrollment went up by 7-hundred students!

New York: Drugs maker Novartis Pharmaceuticals shutting down their Suffern factory sometime after Xmas, at least 54 jobs lost.   The Daily News laid off about a dozen people, the owner says it’s losing $20-million USD per year and he’s trying to sell it.

Ohio: Tax sucking nuclear industry contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth reminded local governments it is losing money big time and could eliminate 570 jobs in October, and 1-thousand 4-hundred jobs in the long run!  It’s connected to the decommissioning disaster known as Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, in Piketon.

Oklahoma: After 45 years the Consumers IGA grocery store in Stillwater shutting down by the end of the month.  The owner blamed the greedy property owner for selling to property developers.  Tulsa based shale oil company Samson Resources now chapter 11 bankrupt busted claiming to be in $4.2-billion of debt!

Pennsylvania: God refuses to stop administrators at ‘his’ Saint Joseph’s University from eliminating jobs and cutting programs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.  Administrators hope the cuts will put them back into the ‘black’ next school year.  The Wilkinsburg School District shutting down its High School and shipping the 2-hundred students to another school district!  However, it was revealed the district is also going to spend $10-million renovating two elementary schools. After nine years the Meritage restaurant shutdown, it might be connected to the collapse of the wall in the kitchen.

Texas: Two Dallas Capriotti’s sandwich shops shutdown suddenly by the corporation: “Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop has decided to end a relationship with one of our franchisees.”-Ashley Morris, ceo

Virginia:  The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association warned that Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is making healthcare worse.  They said increasing operating costs and decreasing payments will result in state run hospitals shutting down and thousand of people becoming unemployed!

Wisconsin: News reports say the city of LaCrosse forcing a local church to shutdown its homeless shelter.  Apparently elitist Nazi false christian neighbors didn’t like the church taking in homeless people and complained!  Manitowoc Ice laying off more employees, this time 20 by November.  It’s part of the company’s plan to move production to Mexico.

16 September 2015: “We need our money and we need it now!”

List of known U.S. store shutdowns for 2016 and beyond 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

“We need our money and we need it now!” The ‘Redman’ imposes sanctions on Michigan! HP kills 30-thousand more jobs! More proof being ‘green’ puts you in the ‘red’! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 16 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

California: More proof being ‘green’ puts you in the ‘red’!  In San Francisco, city bus service contractor Leap now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and auctioning-off its natural gas powered busses.   Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard (HP) announced that 30-thousand people will become jobless in November!  That’s when the new HP Enterprise company will be spunoff: “Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be smaller and more focused than HP is today. As a separate company, we are better positioned than ever to meet the evolving needs of our customers around the world.”-Meg Whitman  (HP has already eliminated 50-thousand+ jobs!)

Colorado:  State tax collectors revealed they underestimated tax revenues off marijuana sales. As a result they’ll be one tax free day on marijuana sales.  The state collected $70-million USD in marijuana taxes, more than the $42-million in alcohol taxes (and that was an increase from the previous year).   In Broomfield, Best Buy shutting down by the end of October.  City administrators admitted that taxpayer dollars will be spent “to redevelop the site”.

Florida: Wellington based B/E Aerospace eliminating 450 jobs as it joins the rest of unAmerican corporate America and consolidates its aircraft interior manufacturing!

Georgia: In Athens, Mama Bird’s Granola and Shared Kitchen shutting down by the end of the month.  They were going to shutdown in July, due to lack of sales, but an ‘investor’ promised to pay their rent for a year, however that ‘investor’ has flown the coup.

Hawaii: In Honolulu, after 35 years retail store Hilo Hattie shutting down their Nimitz Highway location in October.  As with other unAmerican corporate American business, Hilo Hattie is consolidating operations.

Idaho: The Idaho Land Board is using the excuse of wildfires to speed up the clear cutting of forests.  Areas up to 40.5 hectares (1-hundred acres) of ‘burned’ trees will now be cut down for the logging industry: “We’re talking 70 to 80 million board feet, so you could have a fairly large number of administrative packages that would have to come to the Land Board and be scheduled.”-Tom Schultz, Idaho Department of Lands

This year has not been as big a fire season for Idaho (compared to recent years), most of the smoke comes from Washington and California, yet Right to Work (you over) govn’a Otter says firefighting will cost taxpayers close to $70-million USD!

Illinois: Morton Salt shutting down its Chicago packaging ops in October, at least 23 jobs lost.  When asked what they will do with the property, administrators said “We have not made any decisions with respect to our buildings and the property there.” What automotive industry recovery?  Titan Wheel warned of a second round of layoffs.  In May they laid off 60 people.  It’s blamed on crashing orders from the farm, mining and military industries.

Indiana: In Elkhart, after less than four years ModMex restaurant shutting down by the end of the month, due to “opportunities”.  Madison Township shutting down Fire Station 31.   In Fort Wayne, after 34 years Delmar Video shutdown: “We can compete against another video store, but it’s hard to compete against a sofa and a remote control. The trend it is going so digital that we’d like to get out while we’re still on top.”-Caroline Davis, owner

Kentucky: Pipe maker Dura-Line shutting down their Middlesboro factory, more than 1-hundred people out of work before Xmas!  The factory will be sold-off.  As with the rest of unAmerican corporate America Dura-Line is consolidating operations.

Louisiana: Lafayette based IberiaBank shutting down eight offices in Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida before Thanksgiving.

Massachusetts: Boston Globe owned boston.com laid off 12 people.  

“A recent unpublished decision by the Massachusetts Appeals Court found that an employee could not establish a case for age discrimination under Massachusetts law when his entire job class was eliminated as part of a reduction in force. See Richard A. Porio v. Department of Revenue, 13-P-1621, (memorandum and order pursuant to Rule 1:28, August 27, 2015). Plaintiff is an employee who was laid off when his job class was eliminated, while other, younger members of his same job classification were “provisionally promoted” to a higher job class prior to the cuts.” 

Maryland:  Home Depot killing 315 jobs at its Hagerstown distribution center! The layoffs should take place in time for Thanksgiving.  Like many other unAmerican corporations Home Depot is consolidating the work, to Ohio.  The USPS used the excuse of mold to shutdown the Princess Anne Post Office.  This is the second time I’ve read about the excuse of mold being used to shutdown a post office (Nemacolin Post Office in Pennsylvania).

Michigan: The Michigan Economic Development Corporation eliminated 65 jobs.  It’s blamed on economic sanctions launched by native Americans!

New Hampshire:  It was revealed that tax-sucker Timken laid off 16 people from its Keene military parts factory, last week.  It’s blamed on expected decline in production.

New York: In Norwich, Esterline Norwich Aero Products shutting down their aircraft parts factory by March 2016, at least 78 jobs lost starting right after Xmas.  For the first time in eight years Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center will not open this Winter, but don’t blame ‘global warming’.  Two different news reports give two different reasons for the shutdown.  News12 blames it on a lack of revenue to maintain the facilities, however, Times Herald Record blames it on a lawsuit.  In Herkimer Brian’s Roast Beef Deli shutdown, the owner is battling cancer.

Ohio: In Cleveland, Americano Bistro shutting down by the end of the month due to an “inability to secure a lease”.  In Lancaster, after 70 years Colonial Heights Furniture shutdown.

South Carolina: In Old Town Bluffton, The Sippin Cow and the Vinyard 55 restaurants shutdown.   The owners of the restaurants say they’re forced to find new locations.

Tennessee: Three Bojangles restaurants shutdown by the state tax agency who seized the franchise owner’s assets.  Employees will not be paid (been there experienced that in 2012 here in Idaho, but nobody believes me): “We need our money and we need it now, ’cause ain’t nobody got time for that! Bills are still rolling!”-unnamed pissed-off employee who just found out the state can shutdown your job and take your final paycheck

Virginia:  The women’s only (isn’t that sexist, I wonder why it’s women’s only? you mean men and women are different?) Amethyst Health Center shutting down after 27 years due to a change in the zoning of the property.

Washington: In Seattle, Anderson’s Books shutting down in October, all books now only $1!  The owner is moving to Colorado.

Wisconsin: In Madison, after 30 years Steep & Brew shutting down by the end of the month.  The owner said he had an ‘opportunity’ to sell-out, so he did.

15 September 2015: “…we are in a yellow for a caution…”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.” 

Business/Economics

“…we are in a yellow for a caution…” Unemployment fund almost bankrupt! Mexican exodus? Texans declare War on Walmart! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 15 September 2015

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

“Donald Trump is right: America’s real unemployment rate is 40%!”-Fortune

California: What automotive industry recovery? In San Francisco, after only eight years electric motorcycle maker Mission Motors now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.  The motorcycles were praised by critics, but apparently a lawsuit stopped them from getting to market.

Connecticut: GE (General Electric) blaming U.S. Congress for forcing it to ship 6-hundred U.S. jobs overseas! The exalted ‘lawmakers’ refused to fund the most important Export-Import Bank which helps U.S. companies compete globally.

Idaho: “Special Olympics Idaho is experiencing a revenue shortfall due to the statewide increased demands of our program services and athlete growth, higher cost of putting on competitions and training, coupled with the unexpected cancellation of some benefit events conducted on the organization’s behalf which were in the budget for over $60,0000.”-Laurie La Follette

For more on the confusing and corrupted Idaho Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) insurance scams read: What You Need to Know about Idaho Health Insurance

The Gem State has experienced a 30% increase in illegal immigration!  Read more: Illegal Immigration Numbers in Idaho

Illinois: In Algonquin, the Gordmans store is shutting down, corporate weenies refuse to say why, other than it was the result of an “assessment”.  Chicago based Tribune Media warned of massive layoffs at all its media outlets, including California’s Los Angeles Times which is reported to be hit by $10-million USD in cuts!

Indiana: In Evansville, mental health and addiction treatment center Mulberry Center shutting down by Xmas.  News reports say the center has a couple hundred patients, yet only seven employees.  Sounds very efficient, yet the owners of Mulberry Center, Southwestern Healthcare, say they have to consolidate healthcare services into fewer centers in order to save money because Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) greatly reduces payments.

Massachusetts: Boston Weak spoiled brats elitist students at Harvard are crying in their yogurt after learning that the two years old self serve Yogurtland shutdown: “I was actually devastated. I was genuinely devastated. Yogurtland for me as a freshman, was a place of solace.”-Lulu S. Chua-Rubenfeld

“Yogurtland was the holy place for me. My temple….”-Jon D. Young

Maryland: DC based Colonial Parking eliminating 60 jobs at the National Institutes of Health due to expired contract.

Minnesota: In Duluth, Master Bakery Outlet shutting down.  It’s part of a plan by parent company, Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo, to drastically cut back on the number of operations in the United States.  Grupo Bimbo (aka Bimbo Bakeries USA) has become the largest bakery op in the U.S.

New York: After 17 years eclectic (junky? claustrophobic?) Rainbow Music shutting down by the end of the month.  In Brooklyn, Healthy Crush Juice Hugger Cafe shutting down to be replaced with a five story building.  In NYC, after two years Luca & Bosco ice cream shop shutdown without warning. The owners told local newsies that they’re forced to look for new location, but will continue catering and wholesale ops.

North Carolina: After 65 years the Colony furniture store on Providence Road shutdown.

Ohio: The second largest salty snack food maker in the U.S., North Carolina’s Snyder’s-Lance, shutting down three factories in Columbus! Snyder’s-Lance is joining the consolidation trend and moving production closer to North Carolina.  In Frazeysburg, the Ross IGA grocery store shutdown due to crashing sales. Local news reports say customers will have to drive 20 minutes to the nearest grocery store.  About a week after it was revealed that Piketon American Centrifuge Plant uranium enrichment factory was being shutdown by the Obama regime, local unions are now reporting that more than 7-hundred people will lose their jobs!

Texas: In Texas City, British empire’s BP (British Petroleum) announced 36 layoffs at their paraxylene operations.  In Naples, the only local grocery store, Pruett’s Food, announced it was shutting down due to Walmart moving into town.  But after the announcement sales at Pruett’s skyrocketed, news reports say the residents of Naples have declared war on Walmart!  The owner of Pruett’s said if the sales can stay up then he’ll stay open.

Virginia: Newport News Shipbuilding laid off 480 salaried employees!  It’s part of their plan to eliminate 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs by the end of 2016!

West Virginia: State administrators report that their unemployment assistance fund is almost broke, due to massive layoffs in the coal mining industry: “We have seen a decrease in the Trust Fund balance and we are watching this extremely closely.  I would say we are in a yellow for a caution light on the trust fund.”-Beth Carenbauer, WorkForce West Virginia

13-14 September 2015: “Dear customers…we have closed our doors…”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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.”