20091006 wsj boomers....

Posted by tiffany, Tuesday October 6, 2009

The middle of last month just before I had shoulder surgery I had the pleasure of shooting a story for the Wall Street Journal and was assigned to work with my former Las Vegas Sun, Pulitzer Prize writing colleague, Alexandra Berzon. What fun!

The story is a look at traveling construction workers, called “Boomers,” who have been stranded in Las Vegas since the construction industry has come to a screeching hault here, and everywhere, particularly in the last 18 months.

A slideshow is on the WSJ site with the story. These are a few of the workers stuck in Vegas, with families, expenses and no work.






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