Las Vegas or Sin City was the symbol of pro-growth economics, the fastest growing place in the country, real estate gambling tourism were all booming ...now it is a scary place things have not looked as bad since the great depression ...
During the boom years, no place in America boomed more than Las Vegas. But when the economy collapsed, Vegas fell hard. Laura Ling tours the wreckage of Sin City, from unemployed strippers and half-built, abandoned casino projects, to hospitals turning away cancer patients and ambulances, to one of the few remaining boom industries--evicting people.