Despite the excitement and goodwill afoot surrounding the construction of the CityCenter in Las Vegas, the financial hurting that is happening all around the country is not staying away from the city known for sin. Even though the people behind the CityCenter project estimate that the structure will bring in some 12,000 jobs, about 6,000 of those jobs are actually jobs that people already hold so the job-generating notion of the project has been overstated a bit. No matter what, the jobs they are going to be finally able to create will be nothing compared to the job cuts that are happening everywhere.

Officials from the CityCenter project say that they are going to receive somewhere around 150,000 job applications. This is the trend everywhere. With people spending less time in land-based casinos, like those that line the main street in the heart of the city of Las Vegas, it seems more people are playing at online casinos. Even well-established business are having a hard time. And job-seekers are everywhere and they will take anything they can get and leap on every single opportunity that presents itself. When In-N-Out send out word that they would be looking to fill 50 positions at their latest Las Vegas store opening up, about 1,000 different people came to apply for the jobs.

It is harder and harder for everyone. No employer wants to be cutting jobs when times are this hard and many are doing everything they can to try to stave off those kind of moves, but even as a last resort solution to lower funds, it is happening all over the place, even in casinos. With all of this free time on people’s hands, it seems that this situation, however dire it may be for those without work or any job leads, it will be alright for online casinos.

Tags: economy, las vegas

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