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Feb. 24, 2025: Vail Resorts grapples with changing market, labor, and expansion; Debating tipped wages

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Ski lifts on a snow-covered mountain.
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Vail Resort uses snow guns to make snow near the Riva Bahn Express Lift in 2019.

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Bumps for the ski industry. Or moguls as it were. Vail Resorts says for the first time, it sold fewer Epic passes than the year prior. Yet Vail's rapid expansion continues, as we'll hear from a Wall Street Journal travel reporter. Then, passionate testimony at the state legislature over what to pay people who get tips. And survivors, descendants and family of people incarcerated at Camp Amache in Colorado denounce denounce the Alien Enemies Act.