LayOff's In New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday the city is laying off as many as 3,000 employees — or about half the city’s workforce — because of the damage done to New Orleans’ finances by Hurricane Katrina.

Nagin announced with “great sadness” that he had been unable to find the money to keep the workers on the payroll.

He said only non-essential workers would be laid off and that no firefighters or police would be among those let go.


The recent effects of Katrina are causing the city of New Orleans to lay off the workers that are helping clean up the city. Workers keeping order and giving people hope. If the city can't afford it's clean up crew, how are they ever going to get back on their feet?