All posts tagged "unemployment"

(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation came out this morning with the January...

(Chuck Muth) – If we really want to pull our nation out of this economic abyss, perhaps...

(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Over the years, it has been my privilege to own a few...

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Joe Heck made the following statement regarding November’s national employment situation. The economy created 120,000 new jobs as the unemployment rate ticked down 0.4 percent to 8.6 percent. “Anytime the unemployment rate drops and another Nevadan finds a job, it is a good thing, but today’s news is...

(Chuck Muth) – The story the mainstream press keeps ignoring in the unemployment “crisis” is that there are an awful lot of employable folks who could and would take a job in a heartbeat if their unemployment bennies ran out. As it is, they’d rather live at home with momma, or off...

(Bruce Feher) – The papers are full of the something for nothing crowd crying that they need more. Government at all levels say the same but none seem to give a darn about the folks who have to pay for it. My income is down, my business is down, my investments, well...

NN&V Exclusive (David Mansdoerfer) – Before writing off President Obama’s jobs now speech, I wanted to take...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – New projections from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget last week predict that the national unemployment rate will remain around 9 percent throughout the next 16 months and will not again approach 6 percent until 2016. Those numbers now approximate what the Congressional Budget Office has said....

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Since the dawn of democratic government, politicians’ favorite path to retaining and/or expanding their...

NN&V Exclusive (Dan Schwartz) —the number of jobs Nevada will need to return to 5% unemployment and how to start the process. Recently, Governor Sandoval, backed by the Nevada Development Authority, signed AB 449, the Nevada Jobs and Economic Growth Plan.  The bill outlines several initiatives to reverse the state’s high unemployment...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Nevada’s unemployed construction workers are experiencing firsthand the consequences of government-manipulated interest rates. As...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Pundits and policymakers are easily perplexed by economic recessions and their most visible manifestation, unemployed workers. To these commentators, it is mysterious that labor unemployment remains high across the nation despite massive federal deficit-spending policies, financial bailouts and monetary easing. Here in Nevada, the official unemployment rate has remained...

(David Mansdoerfer) – Currently, Nevada has an official unemployment rate of roughly 12% – the highest in the United States. This, however, doesn’t even begin to describe the dire economic situation Nevada is currently in. Outside of the ‘official’ unemployment rate, which only takes into account those who are actively looking for...