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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.

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.

Business News

Private Equity Bought Your Hospital's Neighbors

Buyout firms own a documented share of U.S. healthcare, from nursing homes to physician practices, and the outcomes research shows where care quality moved.

Empty nursing-home common room with wheelchairs and staff at the desk
Business News

Retail Bankruptcies Keep Scoring the Malls

Chapter 11 filings in retail ran at elevated rates through 2025, and the closure lists inside each docket document which malls and main streets lose their anchors.

Boarded storefront in a mall corridor with a leasing sign
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Layoffs in 2026: Trust the Filings, Not the Feed

Viral layoff tallies exaggerate the picture. The WARN notices, WARN Act lawsuits, and severance filings tell a more precise story about who is actually losing work.

Stacked state layoff notice folders beside a tax office window
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The Craft Brewery Shakeout Reaches Main Street

After three decades of relentless growth, craft breweries are now closing faster than they open for the first time, and the taproom economics explain why the corner brewery felt it first.

Empty bar stools in a closed taproom with stacked chairs
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Reshoring's Real Jobs Boom Is in Construction

Factory announcements dominate the headlines, but manufacturing construction spending has hit records, and the workers building the plants outnumber the ones running them, for now.

Steel framework of a large factory under construction at sunrise