Unemployment in Nevada has soared to more than 28% — the highest in the nation and the highest for any state ever since 1976, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking this data.
A car drives down an otherwise empty Las Vegas Strip amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 8.Bridget Bennett/AFP via Getty ImagesBridget Bennett/AFP via Getty Images, Nevada stands out. The jobs crisis hit the state early and dug in deep. Unemployment there has soared to more than 28% — the highest in the nation and the highest for any state since 1976, when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking this data.
, with a nearly 41% year-on-year loss of jobs at hotels, casinos and restaurants and other tourism-related businesses.It's not just Vegas and Reno that are hit hard. ... A community called Fernley in northwest Nevada — about 57,000 people in total and 20% unemployment. This sounds as though it's hitting the state hard all around. Is that right?
Your agency handles all of these unemployment claims pouring in. What has been your biggest challenge in this crisis? In the first week of the pandemic, we had over 90,000 claims. We saw nine months' worth of activity in a single week. And then we had eight months' worth of activity in the week after that and seven months the week after that. The sheer volume, I think, is something that is really hard to capture.
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