Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
“If you grow up low income and manage to get higher education, which few people manage to do, the potential for that to lift you solidly up into the middle-class and upper-middle class is more limited than we thought.”-Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment
A Brookings Institute […] Continue Reading…
23 February 2016 (07:34 UTC-07 Tango 01) 04 Esfand 1394/14 Jumada al-Ula 1437/16 Geng Yin 4714
“It is easy for consumers to be lulled into complacency by ample stocks and low prices today, but they should heed the writing on the wall: the historic investment cuts we are seeing raise the odds of unpleasant oil-security […] Continue Reading…
23 February 2016 (06:03 UTC-07 Tango 01) 04 Esfand 1394/14 Jumada al-Ula 1437/16 Geng Yin 4714
“…now becoming clear that Ebola is a far more complex disease than we previously imagined. The meningitis that Ms Cafferkey suffered from at the end of last year is one of the most serious complications of all, as it […] Continue Reading…
23 February 2016 (04:45 UTC-07 Tango 01) 04 Esfand 1394/14 Jumada al-Ula 1437/16 Geng Yin 4714
“…the small present German surplus seems to be caused by a non-sustainable low level of government investment which is of course burdening the young with the real costs.”-The largest ‘Bild’ lie ever? Factchecking Bild-zeitung
Despite falling factory orders, and funding […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: Chevron is about to layoff 237 people at its beautiful Kern County oil ops! Administrators say it’s necessary to maintain “long-term business objectives”.
Colorado: Missouri based mattress maker Leggett & Platt eliminating 64 jobs at its Colorado Springs factory. The factory is being shutdown by June.
Idaho: Despite the U.S. […] Continue Reading…
22 February 2016 (02:49 UTC-07 Tango 01) 03 Esfand 1394/13 Jumada al-Ula 1437/15 Geng Yin 4714
A radioactive water leak halted the re-start of a nuclear power plant, no, not in northeastern Japan near the ongoing disaster known as Fukushima, but in southern Japan, at the Kansai Electric Power Company’s Takahama Nuclear Power Plant, in […] Continue Reading…
22 February 2016 (02:32 UTC-07 Tango 01) 03 Esfand 1394/13 Jumada al-Ula 1437/15 Geng Yin 4714
North of Lompoc, California, the U.S. Air Force launched a Minuteman 3 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) towards the south Pacific Ocean.
USAF Global Strike Command said the launch was meant to test a new re-entry vehicle designed to improve the “accuracy […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.
‘Wall Street’ analysts are finally admitting we could be in a Depression: Chilling ways the global economy echoes 1930s Great Depression era
Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart reported yet another quarterly decline in profits. This time, for the 2015 end of year holiday season their profits fell 8%. Ho ho […] Continue Reading…