Nevada now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. The official numbers come out tomorrow, but News 4 has learned that the statewide jobless rate will reach 14 percent for May.
That surpasses Michigan, which had held the number one spot until this week, when its unemployment rate dipped to around 13.5 percent.
With most of the Silver State's population living in Clark County, it is likely that southern Nevada's unemployment rate will also set another record when the official numbers are released Friday from the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
The numbers reflect the continued collapse of construction employment, and continued layoffs by government, small businesses and resorts.
"Our economy is very heavily dependent upon tourism," said UNLV Department of Economics' Stephen Miller. "And the current recession, the drivers for the recession, were leisure and hospitality, finance and insurance and real estate, and construction. And we know we're big players in at least two of those markets. That's why the recession has been so severe, unlike previous recessions in Nevada."
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Las Vegas casinos are literally dead at 3am in the morning. Five years ago you could go into one and swear it was 3pm.
ReplyDeleteAll those billion dollar projects, especially City Center, down the tubes.
NO thanks to Harry Reid and mostly President Obama. Throw Reid out would be a good start.
ReplyDeletePuppets.
ReplyDeleteso goes detroit so goes america
ReplyDeletewell seems like the jig is up
obama going on a tour to say bailout worked
i see another president out of touch
Oh My God!
ReplyDeleteVegas and Nevada bankrupt?
Dysneyland ?Neverland?Graceland next?
Its the end of productive American civilisation and culture as we know it!
i thought the smartest man on the planet had everything under control. how many trillions did he spend to save 400,000 jobs. now we need another trillion to resave jobs. when will this madness stop. banks, car companies, healthcare, internet, newspapers, are any of these doing better now that the destroyer in chief took them over. next oil, and cap and tax. have you had ENOUGH.
ReplyDeleteFake numbers again, I live here, I know over 50 people and only 1 has a job, the real number is 30% unemployed.
ReplyDeleteLas Vegas casinos are dead at 12 noon, today the strip was dead, on a summer day in vegas, Dead, everyone is complaining about being broke, no one is doing anything but drinking. You can get a beautiful call girl for like $50.00 a 9 or 10 if you're lucky, if you want a 6 or 7 it will cost you a pack of smokes and a 6 pack, Really!
ReplyDeletevegas needs a bullet train... Ya that will fix it...Hey Obama give Vegas 1 billion for a damn bullet train..
ReplyDeletehttp://beforeitsnews.com/news/79/952/The_Gulf_Of_Mexico_Oil_Spill_Is_Making_A_Lot_Of_People_Really_Sick.html
ReplyDeletelooky here
is this not sad
http://www.ardmoreite.com/homepage/x1057819964/Locals-know-hope-is-gone-at-oil-coated-beaches
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/06/gulf-oil-spill-jimmy-buffet-tells-florida-beach-goers-to-stay-upbeat-despite-looming-oil-slilck.html
ReplyDeletewarren buffet just doesnt care about your health just get here im out 50 million.
do you like pina colada
remmeber jaws shark what shark ?
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/environment/humans/refugees/news.php?q=1276145069
ReplyDeletethis is bizzare
thanks for letting me post.
i was at max keisers website and the clown wont let me post
makes me wonder what is his agenda
after all he is in russia?
11 13 jimmy
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Even though people have described what was happening with certain things becoming bankrupt and ruined like GM and Vegas it was still unbelievable, the mentality was still there that, "Oh well, so what they'll just get money from somewhere else? These places can never fail. America could never have this..."
ReplyDeleteOh wow, it really is happening isn't it?
At least a third of the people here can't find a job, any job. Usual fake numbers.
ReplyDelete11:11 looked at your link. Those people are heroes for trying to help clean up the beach but they are exposing themselves to chemicals that may end up killing them.
ReplyDeleteThey are making the mistake of listening to our liar government about how safe the beaches are there.
Nine years ago other heroes, 9/11 responders did the same thing. Trusted the scum at the EPA and helped in the cleanup. Many or most are cancer ridden or dead right now. The government would do shit for them, won't admit they are liars, they just let them suffer and die. That is the government way.
These people, are unselfish as they are, do not really know the risks they are taking on their health.
Between now and November we may have some nasty hurricanes.
These people need to get the hell away from that area. I know that is easier said then done, but it is better to give up your home then be killed in a gruesome death.
I sure how the best for those people, but this is no time to be a hero, the costs are way to high and the scum EPA is lying again.
Nine years ago it was so toxic for them because they were breathing thermite dust. So sad.
ReplyDeleteWe are starting to see foreclosures here in British Columbia....say the property (townhouse) has an assessed value of $144,000 there were offers of $119,000 and $130,000 and the banks up here still said no. They seem to want the full assessed value. Crazy times are upon us. My prediction we ain't seen nothing yet 2011 and 2012 are going to get worse. Deflation until the end of this year 2010. Then all hell is going to break out gas is going to go throw the roof along with groceries. The consumer is so stretched....
ReplyDeletelook 431 you are a loser shill, do you realize the first businesses and wall st will be burned to the ground when people have nothing left to lose, I cant wait til it happens, you greedy pigs have it coming and it will come to pass, Freak
ReplyDeletewhat gets me about the oil spill!
ReplyDeleteis sept 11 3000 americans died
we invaded 2 countries
and another 5000 dead wounded 100,000 countries spent trillions in money and machines!
this oil disaster will be worse are we going to bomb england? and invade?
i say to you like socrates we have made our own fate we have in essence destroyed ourselves
something no foreign army has done,
our leaders are useless anyone who questions is a terroist or wants a civil war.
we have become insane we have destroyed our ocean
no end in sight and leaders i wouldnt follow into a grocery let alone a war.
this is and has become biblical!!!!!!!!!!!!
our leaders will reamain useless unless they change !!!
we will not see that for pride and arrogance
rules america unfortunetly to big to fail
doesnt work for jesus.
next stop gold 2300 all aboard.
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ReplyDeletethe only problom i have with the hero thingy
is the usauly end up dead.and forgotten.
look at korean war.
we should honour our soldiers but who really cares.we arent nationalist hell we dont even have borders.
Vegas dead is a step in the right direction to a proper recovery. Vegas was an abomination and a sad example and symbol of Amurica. Remember the Atomic Bomb Testing Parties? Good Riddance to that hell hole. Never visited it.....but maybe I will when it becomes a ghost town.
ReplyDeleteNo, we shouldn't honor soldiers. Sociologically speaking, if you honor soldiers, you only help create more willing soldiers by rewarding murder.....and let's face it, that's all war is these days....in fact, it's all it ever was, really.....MURDER.
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ReplyDelete5:12 : That's not going to happen and you know it. Go away to die somewhere like all the useless unemployed.
ReplyDeleteLet the productive businesses continue making profits and making this nation strong again.
It's for the better of this nation.
3:27- I second that....just wait until the commie pinko Libs. get this bloody HST going, you are gonna see every third business go under and forget about starting up any small business-BC is going broke folks- if it were not for the HUGE amounts of cash the Chinese are investing into Van. real estate it too would be another Las Vegas. Besides, the bastards have to find some way to pay for that half billion dollar roof-while the homeless still remain homeless.
ReplyDeleteevery third business now is closed, in a mall in vegas, there were 20 stores two years ago, today that mall has only 4 stores open, it is over already and we can thank those nazi, commie conservabots for that, they have ruined everything here in con vegas.
ReplyDeleteWhat's over? Idiots giving their life savings to Casinos for a toxic buffet lunch? How's that being over a bad thing?
ReplyDeleteVegas was an example of everything that was wrong with the U.S. It was a Microcosm. It was a Ponzi Scheme. It was a rigged game that was always doomed to failure.....and you some how want to revive that?
You need a rubber room....you're a danger to yourself and others with such insanity.
As lousy as Harry Reid is, why would you want Sharron Angle? I understand she wants to prohibit gambling and drinking. That used to be on her website, but now that she's running against Reid, her previous stance no longer appears on her website.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but the crazy Republicans will be worse than the spineless Democrats.
I understand the South's reluctance to give up oil drilling even though it's destroying them. Too many people depend on oil for jobs and sales. But is selling out your kids' future worth it? And don't forget, when the oceans die, the rest of us may not survive. I've seen predicted animations of the oil flow: it's going to go up the entire East coast next and then into the Atlantic. Goodbye seafood.
653 the stock market is the worst rigged casino in the world and its greed will bring down the entire world, who would gamble like that, ONLY A MORON!!
ReplyDelete7:39 and just like a gambler coming home from a casino, the few people that come out ahead in the stock market blab to everyone they know, but the losers clam up.
ReplyDelete9 out of 10 'average guys' lose.
The only sure winners in the stock market are the cheaters you run the crap table. The Goldman Sachs, etc. The ones that are so rich they can buy themselves a Presidential sock puppet.
Nobody here should be suprised on how stupid the average person is. The dumbest person I ever met had 2 masters degrees. It seems the higher the diploma, the dumber they get. They believe anything and blame everyone when they screw up.
ReplyDeleteOh....so I take it you`ve already met Barry Obambaboomba? lol
ReplyDeleteMirage was packed tonight, Leno was spectacular, great seeing how funny he is standup and not on some late show, really good jokes, we couldnt even drive out of the parking garage or down the strip it was gridlock, this is at midnight on a Friday night yes, but the fat lady has not sung...
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