Company news covered through what follows it: site openings and closures, relocation, mass layoff notices, acquisitions and capital commitments, with headcount and location detail where filed. Entries name the communities involved. Read by workforce boards, economic development officers, investors and reporters covering regional economies.
Corporate developments reported with consequences attached: relocations, layoffs, acquisitions and investment commitments, and who absorbs each.
Boeing announced plans in October 2024 to cut about 17,000 jobs — one in ten employees — while 33,000 machinists were on strike over wages, a collision of a restructuring and a walkout with consequences already reaching supplier towns.
Jay Douglas
A financing tool built to help owners sell small businesses to their own employees has been gutted by a citizenship-verification rule, the nonprofit that helped design the program says.
Jay Douglas
Nearly eight hundred thousand franchise establishments employ millions, and the documented economics of ownership, fees, labor, and the joint-employer fight, define who profits.
Jay Douglas
Corporations spent billions directing procurement to minority- and women-owned firms, and after 2023 the programs retreated faster than the announcements that built them.
Jay Douglas
E-commerce warehouses automated furiously while warehouse employment grew for a decade, and the recent flattening documents the moment the two lines crossed.
Jay Douglas