Well one thing for sure, with another 3000 without work in the city, it doesn't bode well for any local service businesses to start resurrecting themselves any time soon. Stuff like that telegraphs. Any layoff is bound to have a further devastating affect on something already incredibly fragile.

Federal financial assistance to keep a city government functioning when its been crippled, would seem like one of the first logical steps.

Seems pretty bizarre to me that if you're trying to rebuild a place, that you would allow the local government infrastructure to disappear for lack of cash. Who's supposed to do the job? Haliburton?