Seattle Entertainment Group<\/a> revealed that 97 percent of tribal casino executives said the $8 billion in coronavirus relief funds is insufficient to mitigate the economic impact caused by the pandemic. Just three percent of casino management officials taking part in the survey are confident they can resume normal operations by the end of 2020.<\/p>\nHuman Cost<\/h2>\n
Jorgensen cautions the impact on tribes will be more than just economic, especially for the Najavo Nation and the White Mountain Apache Tribe.<\/p>\n
“Almost every family in these communities has been affected in a profound way by COVID-19,\u201d Jorgensen told Casino.org.<\/em> \u201cEveryone in the Navajo Nation knows someone who got very ill, nearly everyone knows someone who died.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tribal casinos in the rural Southwest may be the most vulnerable to slow economic recovery, one noted economist warns. Tourism is a key revenue generator for casinos in Indian Country. That’s particularly so during the summer months, Joseph Kalt, a political economist who heads up the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, told Casino.org. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":148006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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