In a statement Sunday, Casey Clark, vice president of strategic communications for the gaming association, said he remained hopeful that the casino business would rebound as it did after the recession, calling the industry “incredibly resilient.” “It will be the biggest blow to the casino industry that we’ve seen in a lifetime,” he said. “We haven’t seen it play out yet, but if you look at the economic numbers that are going to start coming out in the coming weeks, this portends to be a worse economic downturn than we even saw in the great recession,” Clyde Barrow, a professor at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an expert on the casino industry, told The Post. Meanwhile, more than 26,000 workers are out of a job, part of a ripple effect that is putting a massive dent in Atlantic City’s $2.9 billion-a-year casino industry. The gambling mecca on the Jersey Shore is now virtually a wasteland that is costing the state $540 million in casino-related revenues every month while they remain locked down amid the deadly pandemic, according to the American Gaming Association The coronavirus could break the house for Atlantic City’s casinos, industry experts and officials say.
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