Plan To Be Announced For Casino Jobs Training

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A report to the gaming commission last year said there will be ten thousand jobs in the casino industry in Massachusetts.  William Messner, president of Holyoke Community College  said if there is not a trained pool of local people the casino companies will hire from out of state.

The community college have developed programs to train people for casino jobs, using a curriculum from Atlantic Cape Community College in New Jersey.