During a late afternoon ride to Foxwoods through the back roads of the surrounding communities, my wife and I came upon Norwich which features the neighborhoods that you hear so much about. As far as the eye can see are the "hot bunking" multilevel apartment houses that City of Norwich officials explain as a “phenomenon in which employees of the casino live in an apartment in 8-hour shifts because their wages will not support home purchasing or renting.”
My concern is that sub contractors are immune from the ICE Image Program and according to the Spectrum Gaming Group prepared in a 2009 study for the governor of CT. “The casinos recruited non-English speaking workers.” In addition, “Norwich spends nearly millions each year to support students who speak a language other than English, and have significantly lower proficiency levels in math.” Milford knows all too well how a very large underground population and work force of sub contractors led to the tragic deaths of Milford residents on our local roads, created a huge problem with boarding houses and the problem continues to put a financial burden on our school system.
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The Foxwoods bus parking lot looked like a vacant runway at Logan airport. The interior of Foxwoods resort resembled a ghost town with a large corridor of closed up vacant store fronts. A waiter told us it is “horrendous," the only time it gets activity is "when the old people get their social security check and the welfare people get their payments."
A bartender explained to us how Foxwoods keeps lessening the probability of winnings throughout the gambling network of machines and tables because “they can’t afford larger payments.”
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How can Foxwoods help Milford when they can’t help themselves?
