The closing of Atlantic City's Revel casino has caused a rush of people signing up for unemployment benefits, with around 500 people lining up at a temporary resource center yesterday, Reuters reported. Around 8,300 people are losing jobs with three casinos closing in less than a month — Showboat, a Caesars Entertainment Corp. property, closed Sunday morning, Revel closed early on Tuesday morning and Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino is due to close on Sept. 16. Atlantic County, which includes Atlantic City, saw the biggest nonfarm employment drop of all U.S. metropolitan areas in July compared with the same time last year, preliminary U.S. Labor Department data showed last week.
