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Introduction
Rosa Rodriguez spent eight years ironing and hanging bathrobes for guests at the Mirage, the Bellagio and other five-star hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. But as COVID-19 spread through the United States and kept tourists away, there were fewer and fewer robes for her to press.
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Luceanne Taufa poses at the still closed Fiesta Henderson Hotel & Casino on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Henderson, Nev. Taufa was laid off after the casino was forced to shut down when the governor issued a statewide mandate in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and has yet to reopen for business.
David Becker, for the Deseret News
In March, 61-year-old Luceanne Taufa was laid off from the job she’d held for 17 years as a cashier at Fiesta Henderson, a hotel and casino just outside Las Vegas that shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Taufa supports her two daughters in college, and her health insurance helped pay for medication to manage her husband’s heart disease, which keeps him from working. Now, nine months later, her benefits are coming to an end and she is still unemployed.