New Orleans area lost 99,900 jobs (17% total employment) by April 30, 2020

I'm interested in seeing what the job loss data is from April 30, 2020 to Sept 17, 2020 in Metro New Orleans because all I'm seeing is more and more businesses permanently close in Orleans Parish. Thanks JBE and LaToya for your great leadership!

The Advocate

The New Orleans-area economy lost 99,900 jobs, or 17% of its total employment, by the end of April, about one month after the restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the virus were mandated in Louisiana.

And even after some work has returned, the city is forecast to lose more than 37,000 jobs this year compared to 2019, according to the Louisiana Economic Outlook, an annual report penned by economist and LSU professor emeritus Loren Scott and LSU Center for Energy Studies associate professor Greg Upton. The metro area had 583,400 jobs at the end of 2019, and despite a rebound over the next two years, the number of jobs won't reach 2019 levels until 2023 or later, the report said.

The nearly 100,000 jobs that disappeared during the depths of the pandemic represented a sharper decline than the slow loss of tens of thousands of jobs over several years during the 1980s oil bust and even the 93,000 jobs lost immediately following Katrina.