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Article: Local Talent Pool for Las Vegas Airport Screener Jobs Is Deep, Officials Say.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 30, 2002
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By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 30--The search for federal airport security screeners has yielded an excess of qualified candidates in Las Vegas, but it could still be several weeks before Transportation Security Administration employees are staffing checkpoints at McCarran International Airport.
The federal government has mandated that all U.S. passenger airports replace private security screeners with federal employees by Nov. 19. While the agency has had trouble finding enough qualified candidates in some major cities, that has not been the case in Las Vegas.
"We have great applications ...