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Screwed: 5,500 at Eli Lilly

A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.

Today’s Total: 9,589

Eli Lilly plans to lay off 5,500 employees by 2011 in anticipation of patent expirations… 3,722 New York State workers will lose their jobs over the next two years according to Governor Paterson’s Division of Budget… GE will lay off 164 workers from its factory in Bloomington, Ind… Chart Industries will lay off 90 workers at its plant in La Crosse, Wisc… The city of Islip, N.Y. anticipates laying off 70 employees by the end of the week… Timber Products Company laid off 23 workers from its plant in Corinth, Miss… The city of East St. Louis has announced plans to cut 18 city workers, 13 of them firefighters, in order to offset a budget deficit… 2 administrators were cut from the staff of Radford University in Roanoke, Va., kicking off what is expected to be a wave of layoffs after a large budget cut… Halliburton anticipates further layoffs at its facility in Carrollton, Tex., although the company has not announced how many people will be impacted…

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