Posted on 05/22/2020 7:03:42 PM PDT by BackRoads775
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation says the state's unemployment rate is a record high for any state. April's unemployment rate was 28.2%.
"Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, ahead of number two Michigan, which had a rate of 22.7%," David Schmidt, Nevada Chief Economist said. "Nevada now has the highest unemployment rate of any state in any month dating back to 1976."
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New Jersey is in bad shape (and was before this Red Chinese virus); the loss of white-collar jobs in the northeast (closely tied to NYC) and the decline of the gambling in Atlantic City were probably irreversible before, and now the tourist season is going to be hurt. It isn’t just the government lockdown; a lot of people lost their jobs and therefore their spending money.
On top of that, both NJ and NY tried to replace solid economies with pseudo-economies of illegals and idle gibsmedats receiving gubmint freebies - and those tax-dodging workers among them aren’t receiving unemployment or stimulus (yet).
Las Vegas
In this case it really is “Lost Wages”
The rat 🐀 bastards would probably kill OUR mothers too. The bastards.
I think more is going on than in California. I think the casinos can open June 1. But the city will be pretty dead for many months.
The movement to recall Sisolak failed to reach the required signature levels last week. There is a time limit on how long petitions can circulate.
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