STEVE INSKEEP, Host: NPR's business news starts with cuts to California's aerospace industry.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, Host: Boeing cites declining orders as the reason for the job cuts. The factory is expected to shut down completely by the end of next year.
Boeing cites declining orders as a reason it is cutting 900 jobs from an aircraft factory in Southern California, according to the Los Angeles Times. Those jobs are about a quarter of the workforce at the Long Beach planet, where C-17 military cargo planes are made.