Labor Shortages, Declines in Tourism Plague US Economy Under Trump

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“If you tell the rest of the world you’re not welcome, they are going to listen,” Ted Pappageorge, secretary treasurer of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas, told The Guardian. “Our members are telling us that they’re quite nervous, and that’s why they’re calling it a Trump slump.”


“After 25 years in this place, what would I do if they separate me from my children, from my wife, from my life I had built from scratch?” Nery Martinez, an immigrant from El Salvador and bartender at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, told The Guardian. “Those things hurt not just me and people like me, but also hurt citizen children, the community and the economy we help sustain.”

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