{"id":321,"date":"2011-07-26T18:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=321"},"modified":"2011-07-26T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:24:26","slug":"steel-company-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/07\/26\/steel-company-on-life-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Company On Life Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Isaacson Steel bankruptcy sends shivers through Berlin \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhbr.com\/news\/925735-395\/isaacson-steel-bankruptcy-sends-shivers-through-berlin.html\" target=\"_blank\">This\u00a0piece by Bob Sanders of\u00a0the<em> New Hampshire Business Review\u00a0<\/em><\/a>lays bare the financial struggles of Berlin&#8217;s Isaacson Structural Steel.\u00a0 Apparently, the company has debts to the tune of $12.6 million, more than double its assets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_329\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-329\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/07\/26\/steel-company-on-life-support\/5940336236_7de366de3f-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-329\" title=\"Isaacson Structural Steel\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/07\/5940336236_7de366de3f1-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/07\/5940336236_7de366de3f1-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/07\/5940336236_7de366de3f1-220x113.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/07\/5940336236_7de366de3f1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">NHPR <\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaacson Structural Steel is one of the North Country&#39;s major employers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lawsuits, leins and accusations are flying.\u00a0 But more importantly to people in the\u00a0North Country&#8211;and New Hampshire as a whole&#8211;Sanders writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Berlin area&#8217;s unemployment rate was 8.8 percent in May, compared to the statewide rate of 4.8. If all of Isaacson&#8217;s workers were added to the rolls, that rate would shoot up to about 10.5 percent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Sanders, Isaacson employs 160 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0piece by Bob Sanders of\u00a0the New Hampshire Business Review\u00a0lays bare the financial struggles of Berlin&#8217;s Isaacson Structural Steel.\u00a0 Apparently, the company has debts to the tune of $12.6 million, more than double its assets. Lawsuits, leins and accusations are flying.\u00a0 But more importantly to people in the\u00a0North Country&#8211;and New Hampshire as a whole&#8211;Sanders writes, &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[517,513,503,506,502],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}