Jobs in Las Vegas

[vegasrocks]

I read an article in the Las Vegas Sun about how the Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency has been using tax breaks to entice massive projects in the downtown area such as the Molasky Corporate Center and the World Market Center to revitalize the city. The idea was to bring in more jobs for the locals.

The thing is, some community activists and some city officials say that it hasn't worked. They feel that the city should have been more involved with it and that they should have made certain that the people of Las Vegas were getting their due benefits of it. Instead, they relied on the contractors, owners and developers to do what they were supposed to do.

Las Vegas officials acknowledge that their goals for minority contracting and local employment have not been met and concede they don’t know how short they have fallen because they don’t track the results.

“Residents haven’t gotten what’s due them,” Barlow said. “The city as an enforcing agent has not done a good enough job.”

So basically, just because the city's policy isn't "hands on" enforced by them, the contractors, owners and developers are doing what they want and the residents are getting nothing. There is a lot wrong with that picture!