In Las Vegas, the cacophony of voices, music, ringing slot machines and car horns that typically pulsed through the Las Vegas Strip was replaced by silence, the chirps of birds and the wails of sirens.
In tourism-dependent Nevada, the unemployment rate rocketed even higher, topping out at 30.6% that month.
“This is an unemployment rate that’s not driven by job losers, this is an unemployment rate driven by job seekers,” he said.
Homes under construction in the Summerlin community, on July 31, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As of December 2023, the Reno metro area’s unemployment rate was just 0.2 percentage points above the nation’s 3.7% rate.
Persons:
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