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Yellen, in Las Vegas, sings praises of Inflation Reduction Act success
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 ...
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Lombardo announces director for Nevada employment agency
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 ...
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Over 250 people — and counting — hired via Las Vegas job fair
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 ...
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Nevada monthly jobless rate down to 7.3%, still tops in U.S.
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 ...
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Cortez Masto and Manchin plan jobs-focused tour in Nevada
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 ...
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Biden encourages some states to further extend jobless benefits
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 ...
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Nevada sex workers return to brothels, making up for lost time
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 ...
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Casinos, other businesses fight for workers amid tight Vegas labor market
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 ...
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Nevada's jobless workers wait for aid that will still not be enough
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 ...
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Horsford proposes federal help updating state computers to process unemployment claims
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 ...
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Nevada Medicaid enrollment spikes amid pandemic, high unemployment
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 ...
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Once again, job losses fall unequally across the U.S. economy
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 ...
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Some Las Vegas casino workers seeking new careers in the trades
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.
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Nevada borrowing from U.S. government to pay jobless benefits
Nevada is borrowing money from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits after the pandemic created a surge of claims ...
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Out of work in America
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 ...
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Restaurants at Paris Las Vegas to cut nearly 150 positions
Two restaurants at Paris Las Vegas will terminate close to 150 jobs in December, according to state records. In separate letters Monday to Nevada employment ...
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Las Vegas tenants fearful in waning days of eviction moratorium
Yanneth Romero can’t help feeling like she failed her family. She worked as a housekeeper on the Strip. Her husband, Octavio, worked for the same ...
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Las Vegas chefs relish opportunity to help those struggling in pandemic
Volunteers with this Las Vegas nonprofit delivered a chef-prepared meal to a 70-year-old amputee who was cutting frozen meals in half to stretch rations.
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Ray of sunshine: Circa resort creating 1,500 jobs in Las Vegas amid pandemic
The first casino built downtown in four decades, Circa is providing some 1,500 jobs at a time the coronavirus pandemic has rocked the Las Vegas ...
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Amid pandemic, Amazon is a lifeline for some Las Vegas-area workers
Matthew Mills arrived in Las Vegas in mid-March eager to find employment. He wasn’t alone. A few days later after the 23-year-old single father arrived, ...
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