Unemployment in Las Vegas

Christopher DeVargas / Las Vegas Sun

Guy Snow, instructor at the Electrical JATC of Southern Nevada, welcomes US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen to the facility for a tour of their renewable energy program, Monday Aug. 14, 2023.

Yellen, in Las Vegas, sings praises of Inflation Reduction Act success

Aug 15, 2023 (2 a.m.)

By Casey Harrison

The economic upshot in Nevada and across the nation appears bright, as climate and infrastructure projects bolstered by President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act begin to take root, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said ...

Lombardo announces director for Nevada employment agency

January 11, 2023

By Casey Harrison

Gov. Joe Lombardo on Wednesday announced a new director for the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, giving a new voice to a state office that was once under public scrutiny for its handling of unemployment claims amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over 250 people — and counting — hired via Las Vegas job fair

December 10, 2021

By Bryan Horwath

A job fair at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday has already resulted in 251 positions being filled, state officials said. It’s expected that hundreds more applicants will be hired for various positions in ...
Nevada monthly jobless rate down to 7.3%, still tops in U.S.

November 19, 2021

Associated Press

Nevada’s unemployment rate decreased a notch to 7.3% in October and the state added 11,200 jobs, according to figures released by the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. But the ...
Cortez Masto and Manchin plan jobs-focused tour in Nevada

August 20, 2021

Associated Press

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin will join Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on a three-day, jobs-focused tour of northern Nevada next week, where the two plan on showcasing how ...
Biden encourages some states to further extend jobless benefits

August 19, 2021

By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times Company

President Joe Biden is encouraging states with stubbornly high jobless rates to use federal aid dollars to extend benefits for unemployed workers after they are set to expire in early September, administration officials said Thursday, in an ...
Nevada sex workers return to their brothels, eager to make up for lost time

May 19, 2021

By Sara MacNeil

When the coronavirus pandemic shut down Nevada’s legal brothels last year, Kourtney Chase found herself scrambling to find ways to make ends meet.Chase, a sex worker at the Chicken Ranch about 60 miles outside of Las Vegas, did online sex shows and even tried ...
Casinos, other businesses fight for workers amid tight Vegas labor market

May 11, 2021

By Bryan Horwath

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Elaine Davis of Las Vegas worked as a home health specialist, caring for developmentally disabled clients. Davis said she enjoyed the work, which she did for more than 20 years. Then COVID-19 hit, and Davis, 55, caught the virus, landing her in the hospital. Davis fully recovered, but when she decided it ...
Nevada’s jobless workers wait for aid that will still not be enough

March 13, 2021

By Jennifer Medina, The New York Times Company

No state’s workforce has been battered as badly by the coronavirus pandemic as Nevada’s, and people are especially struggling in Las Vegas, where tourist dollars have given way to ...
Horsford proposes federal help updating state computers to process unemployment claims

March 1, 2021

By John Sadler

Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada is sponsoring a bill to help states upgrade computer systems that process unemployment insurance claims. Horsford wants to create a basic ...
Nevada Medicaid enrollment spikes amid pandemic, high unemployment

February 22, 2021

By Ray Brewer

With the pandemic bringing historic jobless rates across Nevada, the state’s Medicaid insurance program has seen a spike in enrollment. One out of every four Nevadans is ...
Once again, job losses fall unequally across the U.S. economy

January 9, 2021

By Christopher Rugaber and Alexandra Olson, Associated Press

Ten months into America’s viral outbreak, low-income workers are still bearing the brunt of job losses — an unusual and harsh feature of the pandemic recession that flattened ...
Some Las Vegas casino workers seeking new careers in the trades

December 28, 2020

By Bryan Horwath

Strip craps dealer Chris Cole completed a three-month program at the National Technical Institute in Henderson to become a heating and air conditioning technician.
Nevada borrowing from U.S. government to pay jobless benefits

December 18, 2020

Associated Press

Nevada is borrowing money from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits after the pandemic created a surge of claims ...
Out of work in America: Across the US, joblessness is changing lives

October 25, 2020

By The New York Times

In March and April, as the virus began tearing through the country, Americans lost as many jobs as they did during the Great Depression and the Great Recession combined …

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