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...manufacturing workers with less adaptable skills, the wage gap between industries is still daunting. Two years ago, the Pequot Indians opened their now-packed Foxwoods casino in Ledyard, Connecticut. So profitable have such gambling dens become that the Pequots could afford to staff the casino with 9,000 craps dealers, bartenders and other workers. But fully 56% of the nearly 1,300 employees who arrived after losing their jobs at local defense contractors like Electric Boat had to take pay cuts of at least $2,500 a year, according to Donald Peppard, a Connecticut College economist. One welder- turned-security...
...Ledyard High School...
...Mashantucket Pequots are a tiny tribe of 320 people and untold millions of dollars -- earned at their reservation casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, above. Last week the Smithsonian Museum received $10 million from the Pequots...
...Ledyard Mavericks Girls' Softball Team...
Since opening two-and-a-half years ago on Pequot tribal land in Ledyard, Conn., Foxwoods has become the largest grossing casino in the United States raking in about $600 million annually...