Casino closures trigger Atlantic City workers’ exodus

The exodus of workers in Atlantic City remains unabated as New Jersey’s gambling hub sheds more casino jobs.

According to the Press of Atlantic City, the workers’ flight out of Atlantic City will remain a trend especially with the impending closure of the Trump Taj Mahal – the fifth such closing in three years.

It cited the latest Stockton University’s South Jersey Economic Review which showed that the total employment in the country has slightly declined to 350 jobs for the first half of 2016. Since the first quarter of 2014, employment in the casino hotel industry has dipped by about 5,400 jobs, or 20 percent total in the city’s metropolitan area.

The bi-annual report noted that these decline was triggered by the closure of Atlantic Club, Revel, Showboat and Trump Plaza in 2014.