Wall Street downgrades Atlantic City after Christie installs emergency finance team

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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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