One Friday in late July, nearly 1,500 people lost their jobs, all at once.
The pharmaceutical plant where they worked was a cornerstone of the local economy in Morgantown, W.Va. And then, in a wink, it was gone.
In Denver, 160 oil and gas workers recently lost their jobs. In Meridian, Idaho, more than 300 people’s jobs at a small defense manufacturing company will soon disappear. In Bridgeport, Conn., families are bracing for nearly 700 people to be let go from People’s United Bank. Three-thousand people recently saw their jobs with health insurer Centene evaporate, while nearly twice as many workers were turned out from T-Mobile.
