Rachel Louise Ensign
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100 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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I was just in Vegas a few weeks ago.
It doesn't seem that different.
Like people are
gambling and drinking and smoking cigarettes at eight in the morning and all that.
But if you dig a little bit beneath the surface and look at who is going, it's changed really dramatically just since the pandemic.
So, you know, before the pandemic, the majority of visitors were
were not very well off.
Only 28% of visitors lived in households earning $100,000 US or more a year.
And last year, 75% of visitors were in that income bracket.
So
It's now a vacation for an affluent or rich person for the most part.
And it's a different kind of vacation.
There's a lot of new events going on in the city, new venues for big events, concerts, and things like that.
And a lot of people will go spend $300 on a concert ticket and then go out to dinner and do all the other stuff they can do in towns.
Yeah, that's exactly what's happening.
And that was kind of what motivated us to do this story, actually, because I've been writing about that K-shape situation.
the ascendance of really the top 10% of people in the U.S.
who are driving the economy right now for over a year.
And this is like a place where you see the K-shape in action.
Well, I don't have the overall figures in front of me right now, but I know overall last year, Vegas saw a pretty big drop in visitors.
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