Although workers have begun returning to restaurants, retailers and other businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, layoffs are seeping through sections of the job market that previously escaped major damage.
Lyft driver George Jhonson is one of thousands of Nevadans waiting for unemployment payments because their claims have not been approved by the state of Nevada ...
By Patricia Cohen and Ben Casselman, The New York Times Company
Black Americans have always had a more difficult time in the job market. The latest evidence arrived Friday when the government reported that 21 million Americans were unemployed in May.
When Nevada last month rolled out its Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program for self-employed workers, Lyft driver Adam Kowalskii thought his financial strain caused by the business shutdown would be alleviated. ...
Nevada jobless figures continue to climb, with more than 18,000 people filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week, the U.S. Labor Department ...
Despite record-setting unemployment in Nevada, there are still pockets of opportunity for job seekers. Essential businesses like grocery stores and ...
The payments will help independent workers “and others who are historically unable to qualify for traditional unemployment insurance benefits,” such as ...
About 24,000 out-of-work Nevada residents filed first-time unemployment claims last week, pushing the total of new claims filed since mid-March to almost 443,000 — or more than three of 10 people in the state workforce in February.
Nevada state officials said Wednesday that federal emergency funds are kicking in to extend unemployment payments for an additional 13 weeks for idled workers who have ...
Nevada is fast-tracking the hiring of temporary unemployment office workers to deal with a wave of benefits claims that followed the mid-March closure of casinos and other businesses in ...
Every Thursday, hundreds of people line up in cars starting in the early hours of the morning to get food from a pop-up drive-thru food bank at Palace Station. Some people arrived this past week as early as 1 a.m. for the 8 a.m. opening, one volunteer was told …
The unemployment rate in Nevada has reached a record high of 22%, according to a report today from the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. As recently as February, the state unemployment rate was less than 4%. The national rate is 14.7%.
Station Casinos is laying off a “significant” number of employees and will delay reopening four valley properties after the coronavirus shutdown is lifted, according to a letter to employees. There will also be layoffs at the company’s corporate headquarters, according to the letter from ...
Millions of Americans received $1,200 deposits from the IRS over the last week through the CARES Act, a federal stimulus bill intended to help people facing unemployment and financial duress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One group that won’t receive deposits or checks is undocumented immigrants, who make ...
