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It is no secret that the Las Vegas gambling market is suffering. Since the recession the area, in fact the entire state, have been struggling with lowered revenue streams. The problem with the area is that it had no secondary market to rely on. It built easily 80% of its revenue stream on gambling. Once the recession happened, people lost their discretionary funds and quickly cut vacations and wagering out of their budgets. Millions of Americans lost their jobs and had no choice other than to cut back on non-necessities—they had to in an effort to make their monthly budgets. For this reason Las Vegas has had a difficult time managing throughout the recession. Now that the recession is over, the city is still having problems. People are returning to their old buying patterns but much slower than anticipated.

The Plaza recently announced that it is taking drastic measures to ensure its financial future. The organization is laying off about four-hundred employees and closing down about 1,000 hotel suites. In addition, they are putting that money saved into renovating the current gaming facility. The hope is that the money will do well to bring in a new customer base and call older customers to return to gaming. Part of the huge problem is the recession, but another problem is the market going on in Macau. Macau is growing by the day in revenue and becoming one of the biggest gaming hubs in the world. It is creating exotic get-a-way vacations for gamers and that is too much of a draw. People are opting for a Macau vacation, rather than a Las Vegas trip. Plus, the prices are about the same with the exception of the plane trip. Gamblers are willing to make the added expense with the hope of going to a far away location for extreme gambling fun. Hopefully the Plaza will be able to reinvigorate the market and bring in more customers. It may take some time but the market is shifting. Plaza owners have to do something now to bring a new notoriety to their gaming products or they may suffer more setbacks.

It was last November when the voting public in Ohio approved of four casinos in four major cities within the state. Part of their main reasoning for bringing casinos in was the potential job creation. During the recession one of the biggest problems was the heightened unemployment rate. No matter how hard the economy rallied, the unemployment rate continued to move up. Most US cities experienced a rate that was well into the double digits and some states even moved into the forty percent range at their worst. The difficulties posed made it hard for residents of the state of Ohio to say no when given the issue of building four mega-sized casinos.

Now that the four casinos are on their way to being a reality, developers are voicing their committment to hiring locals only for positions available once the casinos open. In addition, they are also saying that they will be hiring only local contractors and developers to build the casinos. This is carrying through with their former promise and proving to be welcomed news for all of the state’s residents. Most are still in some form of unemployment, or working only part time. They want to find permanent full time positions to carry them through their monthly bills and help them to meet their budgets. It will take some time for them to get the former levels of income pre-recession and this is a great start to helping them move forward financially.

Expect coming months to bring more and more jobs to the area. Hopefully, people will also come in and gamble at the four casinos. History has shown that just because they build it, doesn’t necessarily mean that people will come in and support it. Las Vegas’ City Center is a classic example of how difficult it can be to spur in new customers to casinos. City Center is MGM’s billion-dollar development that came along with much hoopla and buzz, but it has failed to reach the revenue needed to help developers make back their investment. It has underperformed and many of the condominiums at the location remain vacant. Ohio is still waiting for a different story though. Ohio officials want people to come in and help build up the state’s economy. Only time will tell what will happen.

Atlantic City recently made waves by holding a highly-advertised job fair. The fair promoted a wide range of jobs—everything from maintenance to dealers and cashiers to security. That was great news to the local public because the market has been ravished due to the recent recessionary eighteen-month period. The recession made it difficult for a wide range of businesses to survive and a major hit was had by the gambling industry. Without discretionary funds to spend, consumers were left at a loss. They had to cut back on spending altogether and pay for only the most important of bills and necessities. Cities that made gambling their primary economies, like Atlantic City and Las Vegas, suffered particularly hard. Cities with shared economies fared much better. For this reason Atlantic City and Las Vegas are still reeling and trying to recover.

If you look at the economic state of either one of the two cities you can see how far they still have to go to recover. This is why holding a job fair has been such front page news for residents. It means that the city is ready to put whatever resources it has into building its communities again. This means that legislators are making proactive moves to change things. They are hoping that employing hundreds of residents will help to turn things around. People will once again have discretionary funds and be able to fuel their money back into the state’s economy. This should help to reinvigorate the market and get it back on track for growth, or at minimum a turnaround from continued losses over the past few months.

Atlantic City will weigh in on the results soon and let the market know just how many new people are employed thanks to casinos in the area. It also does a lot to turnaround the reputation of casinos. Many are still operating under the notion that they are going to bring crime and corruption into the areas where they are erected, This may or may not be true, but it still is giving some legislators who are against legalized gambling fuel for their fires.

Alabama has been debating gambling laws for a while now. Governor Robert Riley formed a Task Force on Illegal Gambling a few months ago and the purpose of the team was to control illegal gambling. They have swiftly taken action over the past few months to uncover, investigate and close down illegal operations. The problem is that shutting down various locations is also eliminating much-needed jobs. This is an offshoot of the problem that has yet to be addressed until now. Alabama residents are having issues and will continue with them throughout the future until this is sorted out completely.

Residents of the US have suffered a great loss in jobs in the past few years. The recession caused many businesses to shut down or to go through major cut backs. The unemployment rate soared and millions of Americans were left out of jobs. Now, that unemployment issue is still rearing its ugly head via new changes in the market. For example, in Alabama Greenetrack is one of the biggest companies and employs the highest number of workers in the state. Unfortunately it was hit hard by the Governor’s Task Force. The facility was raided and hundreds of bingo machines were seized. Once the machines were gone, the facility was shut down.

Although the Greenetrack is appealing the decision, that does little good for the hundreds of residents who are employed at the facility. They are at a loss for finding new jobs. Many have been with the facility for years and now are left in teh same unemployment line as the other millions of Americans are. So far, Attorney General King has tried to step into the actions of the Task Force. He believes that it needs to be regulated to not put hundreds of
residents in unemployment danger. It will take some time for the issue to sort itself out. Residents are left reeling while the legalities are sorted out. The governor will continue his directions to the Task Force, wanting them to continue finding illegal operations and shutting them down swiftly and completely.