Houston Chronicle

A bloodbath in retail, a shortage of seasonal farmworkers, two bummer summers at the box office, a meltdown in bridal gowns and the flatlining of crude oil prices: This is the stuff of bankruptcy. Whether up close and personal or global in scale, underwater businesses and laid-off workers are often...

When an industry as large as U.S. oil gets hit as hard as it has in recent years, the struggles can weigh on parts of the economy that have nothing to do with energy. According to the Houston Chronicle’s Lydia DePillis, areas of the country losing a lot of oil-related “base” jobs...