Americans’ confidence in landing a job if they lose their current one dropped sharply last month, according to a report that especially doesn’t bode well for Las Vegas in a key way.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released survey results Monday showing that if workers lost their job, the perceived probability of finding a new one fell to 44.9 percent of respondents.

That’s down from 50.7 percent in July and the lowest level since this tracking began in mid-2013, according to the New York Fed.

The results are part of a nationally representative survey of consumer sentiment.

The weakened confidence in future job prospects was broad-based across age, education and income groups, but it was “most pronounced” for those with at most a high school education, according to a news release o

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