Wall Street downgrades Atlantic City after Christie installs emergency finance team

January 23, 2015

James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said Atlantic City is in a tough bind. “Both the city services and its workforce, and the casino workforce, were structured for an East Coast monopoly, which has rapidly disappeared,” he said.

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