City of New Orleans looks to furlough 4,000 employees

City leaders announced furloughs and government-wide budget cuts Monday, forced by revenue losses caused by coronavirus lockdown restrictions eating into the amount of taxes the city has been able to collect.

"We have realized the bottom of our economy has dropped," she said.

For months, Mayor LaToya Cantrell and other top officials have given dire warnings about the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the city's bottom line, even as they continued to loosen those restrictions at a slower rate than other parishes in the state.

[DeltaRoots]

Can someone help me understand the correlation between lack of tourism and furloughs. Democrats cant budget anything

[latoyacross]

I wonder if she's taking a pay cut? 😒

[BlackNAVYAmericanVET]

City hall looks like a tornado smashed it .

[KaylaBuhdayla]

This is incredibly heartbreaking 😢. I was there a couple of weeks back and it was ominous. So Sad

[tikilanichols]

And people are still gonna vote for her... jus watch 🥱

[tikilanichols]

Man this city a shadow of wut it used to be 😔😔

[bmacattack]

Austerity comes back to bite you when you should most expect it.

[billjenkins]

Hate for anyone to lose their job even on temporary basis, but maybe this will increase the efficiencies of the departments.

[joserayne]

I'm nearly on my last leg as well. Haven't been this poor in a long time. I'm going into ramen noodles mode.

[officerkslimm]

This is sad 😢😢😢😢 these people work hard and this is going to be difficult

[nolagospeltracts]

Six days altogether? . yeah, I can see how tough that's going to be.