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Nevada’s unemployment rate for December 2024 stood at 5.7%. This remained unchanged from November 2024. “This month’s report shows a slight rebound in employment growth, which rose to 0.7% ...
In tourism-dependent Nevada, the unemployment rate rocketed even higher, topping out at 30.6% that month. The Las Vegas metro area, which was the hardest hit in the entire nation , saw its jobless ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
The department was originally founded in 1993 with two divisions: employment security and rehabilitation. It also has three boards of commissions: The Nevada equal rights commission, the board for the education and counseling of displaced homemakers, and the commission on substance abuse, education, enforcement, and treatment are within the department. [5]
Officials in Nevada plan to use Google’s artificial intelligence system to assist with the appeals process for unemployment benefits, according to a report in Gizmodo. The thinking behind the ...
On March 5, 2020, Nevada reported its first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): [4] a Las Vegas resident in his 50s who had recently traveled to Washington, the first state infected by the virus. [5] [6] Nevada governor Steve Sisolak declared a state of emergency one week later, because of concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. [7]
The Labor Department puts out numbers on state unemployment about two weeks after it posts the national number. Nevada ranked No. 1 in December 2010 for the highest unemployment rate in the ...
Retired to run for Governor of Nevada and resigned early to become Governor. Cresent Hardy: Republican: January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017 4th: First elected in 2014. Lost re-election. Joe Heck: Republican: January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2017 3rd: First elected in 2010. Retired to run for U.S. senator. Dean Heller: Republican: January 3, 2007 ...