Nevada's casino-driven economy was booming. Then the coronavirus hit
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...