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The jobless rate in Clark County climbed to 14.2 percent last month in part because of the “poor condition of the construction industry,” the state’s chief economist said.
Published Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 | 6:41 a.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 | 7:16 a.m.
The unemployment rate in Clark County climbed to 14.2 percent in August, which is the highest rate this year, according to numbers released this morning.
The number of unemployed in the county stood at 135,720, which is 2,400 more than in July.
The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported the statewide jobless rate rose to 13.4 percent, up from 12.9 percent in July. There were 176,200 people unemployed compared to 169,400 in July.
“The August jobs report confirmed what has been evident since the beginning of summer, that Nevada’s labor market is not improving as well as many would hope,” said Bill Anderson, chief economist for the department.
He said the “poor condition of the construction industry continues to contribute heavily to Nevada’s economic stalemate.” Since the start of the recession, construction employment is down by 90,000 jobs statewide.
However, in Clark County construction employment rose to 40,900 in August, or 1,000 more than a month ago. That was the highest number of construction workers on the job this year. Statewide, there were 54,600 construction workers, the same as a year ago in August.
Employment in the Clark County hotel-casino industry fell to 160,400, or 700 less than in July. Manufacturing employment dipped to 18,300, which is 100 fewer than in July, but the trade, transportation and utilities segment rose to 143,000, up 700 workers.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said he has been preparing plans with his cabinet for training of the jobless, better coordination of eligibility for many state services and specific efforts for veterans and others.
The department reported the ranks of the long-term unemployed continued to grow. The percentage of workers jobless for more than 26 weeks is at 50 percent among all unemployed. That compares with 27 percent two years ago.
“When a person is out of work for a long period of time, skills and experience diminish, making it more difficult to find employment as time goes on,” said Anderson.
The unemployment rate in the Reno-Sparks area stood at 13 percent, the same as July. Carson City’s rate in August grew to 12.7 percent, up 0.1 percent from July. Elko County’s rate stayed at 7.4 percent.
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I knew Sleaze Reid had a plan.Everyone was criticizing Angle when she was running for senate. How much worse could she have done than Sleaze Reid? Hello ! 14.2% It's really closer to 25% with P/T and people that have just given up. Good job REID!
Thank you Gov. Sandoval. Where is your plan Governor? Every state has better employment than Nevada. Maybe your buddy Rick Perry could teach you how to create low wage jobs to bring down our unemployment.
Gov BS, where are the jobs? You were elected to lead this state, not the presidential campaign of another failed Texas cowboy.
Mr. Sandoval never had a plan. Many asked him for one and he never made one public. He was voted into office by the blind leading the blind. He got elected and still no plan.
People need to pay attention during these elections. When a man refuses to tell you how he is going to fix the problems you don't vote for him.
Time for the construction workers to move on and find work in areas that are building. Nevada will not be building enough in the next five years to employee all these guys out of work. Common sense tells you that, use it and go find a job or learn a new trade.
Reid has "the juice" to eliminate 2000 yucca jobs. Enjoy!
My dog just created another shovel ready job for me in my backyard. I think I will give the credit to the Obama Administration.
"Gov. Sandoval, the jobless rate in vegas has risen to 14.2% How do you respond?"
"I endorse Rick Perry for president!"
"Huh?"
"Exactly."
I also have to say, I find it odd and humorous (albeit not in a good way,) that they are just now supposedly working on a plan to improve the jobless rate, as if they all just woke up yesterday and realized the hole our state's economy is in.
But how can this be? Nevada's taxes have always been among the lowest in the nation. According to Republicans, low taxes are ALL that is necessary to create a thriving economy. So how is it that we have the highest unemployment rate despite the fact that we have some of the lowest taxes (and always have)?
As I was driving down Fremeont street I looked down an alley and saw 4 bank ATM machines and a couple of airport ticket kiosks killing a job. This may be a hate crime.
"Plan for training the jobless": It's called EDUCATION, and Sandoval and the Republicans have demonstrated their lack of regard for education in this state, particularly by dismantling the many gains and morale of higher education.
Okay enough political rhetoric. A few days ago Herman Cain wrote an excellent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal. He had one paragraph that summed it all up:
"I know firsthand that government does not create jobs. It can only create the conditions in which businesses operate. These conditons can spur growth, or they can supress it. The conditions imposed by the current administration have suppressed growth."
As a business owner I can attest to the accuracy of his statement.
HST................... It's not the low taxes. The state has the LOWEST education system in the nation. How are u going to get large cos coming to Nevada without SKILLED workers? It takes education. We can't exist on the Casino industry alone .
Thomas Delahunty: "As a business owner I can attest to the accuracy of his statement."
So attest. Spell it out. Let me guess, low taxes and less regulation. Nevada is at the top of the list in these categories. Why do we have the highest unemployment? Why do all the big technology companies open shop in Silicon Valley, CA, the highest taxed and regulated state in the country (and they have a lower unemployment percentage then Nevada).
My question is rhetorical, chazbean. Of course we need an educated workforce to diversify the economy. Nevada is sound evidence that low taxes alone will not do it. Sadly, the current Republican party offers no solution other than low taxes, and they couple this with an anti-intellectualism that is truly scary.
Obama "Spend this money" plan includes a 48th federal job training program.
That should do it.
Lynn, it's all regulations, headaches and fees. My taco shop has to deal with the nazis at the health dept. threatening to close me down because the front door was left open (never mind all the outdoor taco carts in town). The Nevada Dept. of Industrial Relations threatening to shut me down because their copy of my workers comp coverage was expired. Two ladies from that dept. showed up unannounced with badges around their necks literally harrassing my wife. The county Dept of Alcohol and Gaming won't let me sell beer unless I complete a 2" thick packet of applications and get approval from the fire dept, Metro and the health dept. which should take about a year, cost over $1,000 and it was strongly suggested that I hire a lawyer to fill out the packet to avoid errors and further delays. The fire dept. inspections, OSHA and EPA regulations.
That's just my taco shop. My construction company has to deal with the contractors board, the building plan checkers, the building inspectors, OSHA made all my employees attend a 2 day course to get totally worthless OSHA cards. The EPA is killing the construction industry.
If you don't own a business you would not have any idea how much stress comes from over regulation.
I read a bumper sticker the other day that said:
I didn't retire, I surrendered.
That's exactly how I feel sometimes. I wonder if it's all worth it.
Atlas is shrugging.
"The last time the percent was promised under 8%"
Link for me ONE video of President Obama stating this. Also, do a little research...when the stimulus was passed in February 2009, the national unemployment rate had already exceded 8% http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS140000...
"The EPA is killing the construction industry."
Funny, I thought it was the bust of the housing bubble and the recession. No one is buying anything so there's no need to build anything. And, as a corollary to this statement--does this mean that during the housing boom there was less regulation from the EPA?
This is what happens when a bubble bursts.. You can't be the fastest growing city in the country, with thousands of lower level blue collar jobs, and expect the recession not to hurt you the most. Blame Sandoval all you want, but this is how the economy works. The unemployment should progressively go down as the economy improves, but it's not going to happen overnight.
The only other fix is for people to start moving out of Las Vegas.
I have an idea!!! Lets hire more firefighters!! We always need them! They keep us safe! Ha!
Speaker Boehner seemed to address the issue of jobs yesterday in a prepared speech. Actually, what he related was preplexing.
He said the Senate is doing nothing. Huh? Don't make sense. To justify why the House of Representatives is not working on jobs or addressing the President's jobs plan, they point fingers at the Senate? How come Speaker Boehner and his gang of useless Teapublicans can't address this independently from the Senate and get the ball rolling? Especially when it's their job to do stuff like this? Incredibly stupid excuse number one.
The second thing he said is that he sees some merit in infrastructure type spending, but only if it's linked to energy opportunities. Huh? So, according to the illustrious Speaker Boehner's ideas, the only way work on a highway will be accomplished is if one of the Big Oil companies discovers a new gusher underneath it. So, in order to tap a new oil well, the road gets built around it. Incredibly stupid reason number two.
The fact of the matter is that President Obama has them on the ropes. He needs to keep going to the American people and end around them; all in order to show the blatant hypocrisy and party politics. I really don't blame the President for pursuing this action. Because the direct approach didn't work. NOW is the time for drastic measures by using the bully pulpit.
This 112th Congress has been verified and will go down in history as the most useless, do nothing Congress the U.S. has experienced in approximately sixty years. They run around trying to find excuses for not doing what logically needs to be done. All because their political agenda is more important than a jobs agenda.
They are destroying America.
The entire collection of characters in power in the Republican Party have successfully put the boot down on the neck of the American workers and continually hold them down on the ground. With no chance of ever recovering. People want to work, but are refused opportunities because of an idiotic 112th Congress that seems to only get stupid things done, ignoring the important stuff.
But that's okay.
In the 2012 elections, the American workers will slip out from under them and kick them repeatedly in the teeth in retaliation. With their votes. They will indeed pay for their obstruction which results in a relentless and sustained attack on American workers.
You ask me, it is wayyyyyyyyy past time for some kind of justice. Americans are saying no more. They had enough of an extreme right wing agenda the Republican Party pounds out non-stop; even ignoring voices of reason by drowning them out with their unbelievable one sided rhetoric and propaganda that makes no earthly sense at all.
Our time is coming. And it's coming soon. I stand with President Obama. He's the only chance the American middle class has.
Thomas,
Read President Obama's executive order and proposals to reduce regulations http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...
What has "The Switch" in Henderson done for Nevada? It was supposed to bring technology and industry but nothing yet. Have Faith and Keep Waiting? Maybe our Faith is not as strong as it should be, so try harder and Keep Waiting. This is the philosophy that Sandoval wants to teach in school - Science is bad, have Faith instead.
The senate hasn't passed a budget in 2 1/2 years. That would be the definition of nothing.
There are plenty of jobs in North Dakota folks. If times are rough for you here, perhaps its time to consider alternatives.
This percentage is unpredictable because there are always job openings at the Casinos and other businesses. Some of the jobs at the casinos are p/t and on-call but watching the try-outs for the Cirque this week is an indication that there are professional jobs open also including the Reality Review Show, the Tropicana Shows, the empire of MGM including groundskeeper, doormen, up-town upscale rooms, housekeepers, wardrobe attendees, seamstresses for all the shows, certainly some of the top stars do not send their clothes to the cleaners to be altered. There are more jobs for women that are legit jobs than there are for men and the percentages outlined in this report just do not make any sense whatsoever. The pay for a cocktail waitress including tips is more than any nurse earns and more than most of the office personnel at the casinos earned on a time clock.
So, whereever this report came from please draw in your horns of doom and gloom as they did in the Old Testament on treat the job market in Nevada on a Reality Show scale. The outlying less populated towns in Nevada might be where these figures are coming from but the job openings where there is urban entertainment is open to those who have talent, a smile, and a no-nonsense attitude of their work. Those females who are forever in the news are the reason that the females who work at the casinos and other places have jobs that are primarily female oriented. For carpenters and other "union jobs" there may not be as many jobs due to slow housing, but look at all the houses that have been built in cookie cutter order and are needing remodeling due to lack of maintenance by the absenttee owners and the Bank of America banking schemes.
Noindex,
It sounds like your beef is more with our local and state politicians than the feds. It's a shame. We all come out and vote for a president, as if we were electing a king, but we ignore the elections closer to home. Those city council, county commission, and congressional positions affect our daily lives much more than whether an (R) or a (D) is sitting in Washington. Best of luck with your taco shop.(I mean that sincerely)
BTW, if you have visits from OSHA- one of your employees dropped the dime on you.
WELCOME to the UNITED STATES of SH*T...proudly brought to you by LAZY, GREEDY, RACIST REPUBLICANS..Come join the military where you can kill innocent civilans, have a limb blown off, and then come home to a THIRD-WORLD country...Only an idiot would be proud to be an AMERICAN right now...
I overheard a conversation recently stating that the Republicans in Congress don't want to do anything to help the economy because they want Obama out and we all just have to suffer in the meantime. After we have a Republican president, everything will begin to improve.
Really, can we can expect nothing to change for at least 14 months?
Libra, in an election year nothing gets done, which could be a good thing. The more D.C. tries to help, the worse things seem to get.
Why should I hire? I cut my staff in half 3 years ago. We all took on extra responsibility, benefit cuts, slight wage reduction. Our profits are now better than when we had double the employees. This is the same thing that is occurring with fortune 500 companies, mid size business, small business. THERE IS NO REASON TO HIRE.
Obamas jobs bill is nothing more than job welfare. A manufactured job not created by market conditions but simply a job funded by taxpayers that will disappear when the funds run out. That's not a market driven economy. The government can't create jobs. They create the environment. Why is that so difficult to understand.
HST............................... Keep putting people like REID, Berkley, Waters,Rangel , Biden, back in office and u got what u asked for. Imagine if we had a Republican Senator (ANGLE) in office? . What u would have been criticizing her. Reid has been a SENATOR for 30+ yrs. He is the SENATE MAJORITY leader. What has he done for Nevada for 30 yrs?
Government's number one job is that of a referee. They are failing on this across the board. Mostly due to manipulation by the crooks who don't like being policed.
Best example of their failure is Wall Street. You have a compromised President who refuses to do one thing about financial corruption. Thus we have no significant capital formation because a handful of crooks have parked themselves 2 inches from the exchanges and are stealing any and all capital which attempts to be invested. The Markets are rigged and no intelligent business is going to risk capital in rigged and unregulated markets.
You will have no real growth, no job creation, or an end to the cancer eating away the Worldwide economies until such time as the Capital markets are fixed. Simple as that.
The_Next_opinion, no employee did anything to me, the feds stepped into the local OSHA and took it over. They immediately created a program that mandates every person in construction MUST attend a 2 day course that OSHA put's on and the employees MUST carry in their wallets the card that proves they attended. I didn't have to attend because I'm the owner, but my guys told me it was a complete joke. It was put on by an OSHA female employee who admitted she has never worked construction in her life and apparently most of what she was saying was inaccurate and simply a joke.
The point is the Obama administration sees regulations as another source of revenue. OSHA, EPA, Fish & Wildlife, etc. have been instructed from the top to fine anything and everything possible. A fine is simply another form of taxation.
Also, when the health dept. nazi visited my taco shop we got zero demerits. But what really irritated me is the inspector gave her card with her work cell number on it to the employees and told them if they ever see anything questionable to call her (anonymously if necessary) so she can come back out immediately. It only takes one disgruntled employee to cause a whole lot of headaches. Apparently these regulators think this is 1940 Germany where you can be a hero to the state and snitch on your neighbor or employer.
The government needs to work with businesses not against them.
So close your Taco shop. You won't of course so stop whining already. Stop calling people nazis.
Herman Cain may or may not be Presidential material, but he does know business. The reason Gov. Perry was sucessful in Texas is that he managed to keep the Texas government out of the way of business and it thrived. That's what you need to do in Nevada. If you keep voting for folks in Washington and your State House who think the answer to any problem is for the government to step in, you will continue to have miserable conditions and eventually end up like Detroit. The upcoming election is all about jobs. Vote for Congressmen, Senators, and a President who will get out of the way of business and let them get on with saving our economy. If you don't I hear the soup kitchens serve pretty good food....
Machines and robots to replace regulators and to control hypertrophy. No need to wait one year for one permit.
Rather than closing the taco shop, how about making it easier to stay in business?
Exactly how many jobs have you created stephenrblv? In the last 3 years I have created 23 full time jobs. I know what I am talking about, and when people who have no experience in creating jobs or businesses (see Obama and all government employees for that matter) try and figure out what's going wrong with the economy, I get very irritated with those who have no idea what they are talking about....such as yourself.
Missing the whole point here.
When your house is on fire, or you in the middle of someone forcibly trying to break into your house, you aren't going to call a taco shop for help.
Private businesses have their place. God love you if you are successful and make a living for yourself.
But what really, really gets me is the constant attack on public employees and trying to paint them as the enemy and that unions are erroneously identified as the problem, when they actually are the solution.
The simple fact of the matter is the entire Republican Party is trying to fearmonger against public employees. And they are only doing it to bust unions, making the middle class suffer needlessly, all so they can give more and more tax breaks to the wealthy.
There will be payment for this despicable right wing extremist agenda.
Bring on the 2012 elections. We're getting rid of all of them bums. Because this wealth care, not welfare, WEALTH CARE, needs to stop.
In order for it to stop, and get at the filthy rich, we need to take out every Republican they hide behind, even Dogcatcher General, then that's what we gotta do.
There will be hell to pay the next elections. Republicans point at the 2010 elections as a wave election, just wait til 2012. IT'S GONNA BE A FREAKIN' TSUNAMI!
Thomas Delahunty,
Not being totally truthful, now are you. Your Taco Tio received 10 demerits at your last health department inspection on 3/11/11. Certainly not zero, still a grade A, but one provable lie tells me about your character. Congratulations on opening 2 businesses during a recession, one being in construction no less. I truly wish you success.
I gave you a link to how President Obama's executive order reduced regulations; or are you wearing your partisan blinders?
No Index has a problem. Because of his programming. Because he fancy's himself as a free market right wing leave-me alone type, he refuses to use the services he pays for. Or shall I say, his customers pay for when they patronize one of his Taco Shops.
When he sees a competitor hiring people under the table (to keep their food coup-ins coming) does Tom call the authorities? I bet not. So in effect, Tom is promoting (by his not doing anything) the very business practices which eventually will turn the USA into a third world flea market. Most ironic part is Tom will be put out of business rather quickly as this process moves forward.
I am tired of hearing people bash the very things which make America great. We are not great because Tom is some Taco Shop genius. We are great because we live in a country with a just framework. Tearing that down is akin to destroying the country in my opinion.
Is the system perfect? heck no it is a process. Are abuses common? ya think? But nothing moves forward when you have people who stop playing. If the HD is harassing you as you claim, call and ask to speak with somebody who may explain the situation. Somebody you can air your frustration with. Simply internalizing this and adopting political tendencies which are not constructive hurts you.
If you have suspicions a competitor is cheating costing all of us money, report them. To do less is worse than what they maybe doing.
Lets hire more government employees!! Creating jobs!!!!!!
We could use more Firefighters, especially fire captians!!!!
Casinos are enjoying a pretty good streak of monthly increases in revenue, visitor volume and taxable sales but they are still laying off and cutting hours. Nevada ls one of the lowest taxed and most business friendly states in the country. So where are the jobs?
Construction jobs are historically transient. End of story.
Mike;
I agree with thomas. This is not one of the most business friendly states, it is probably near bottom. While I disagree with him that the feds are to blame, he is correct, people do not invest LONG TERM MONEY, (that is what starting a business is) when they do not know what the LONG TERM rules are. The feds are definitely to blame for this lack of clarity.
In the last three weeks, Obama has made statements that have me confused if I should keep LLCs or form them all into a corporation. Many of his statements on "rich" people show that he does not even understand the LLC structure. He is basically a career "taker" from society who thinks he is a "giver". Bush was just a complete buffoon (I could not wait for him to leave office, but now I am scared).
But the reason it is hard to do business in NV is the muni, county and state governments and all the bureaucrats that are trying to justify their jobs (and have far less businesses to harass so they have to concentrate on the ones left). Even with these morons, it would be easier to do business if the workforce was not so transient and did not insist on investing their checks at the local video pub or with station.
Nevada is the tenth business friendly state according to this website http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-sta...
I don't get it. I recently was in Vegas and noticed an increase in numbers of people at the casinos. Downtown I had to wait in line to play craps (it was that busy). It was busy on the strip also. The airport was busy. The place was hopping. I noticed that the Sun recently said visitor numbers are up. It was the busiest I have seen Vegas in three or four years. So why is the jobless count increasing??? One would think things are getting better.
I visited a local casino yesterday and was struck by a few things. First a large multi-player video 21 machine. This machine was not 20 feet from a gal waiting to deal 21 at a real 21 table. The machine had 3 players. The casino had positioned the machine in a way that was almost mocking the culinary Union dealer standing idle.
Next we visited one of the few remaining keno lounges still around. Looked to me about 4 players there. The video keno machines circling the lounge had upwards of a dozen players however.
Change? don't need change people anymore, machines are cashless-ticket deals. Tickets are redeemed using automatic machines as well.
Went by the food court and buffet. Both lightly staffed places where people served themselves, cleaned-up after themselves, and could even buy their own buffet admission themselves.
I figure just in that one casino floor they had eliminated close to 100 people with automation and making the customer serve themselves.
When do we start discussing the real reason jobs are going bye-bye? How long do we play the partisan bickering game over issues which really have no bearing on anything?
Stephen;
Do you own a business here? Does the author of the article? University of Michigan was ranked the number one business school in a survey once also. Surveys are not reality. They are mostly used the government people to justify what they are doing because they do not know what to do on their own.
"business friendly" means a lot of different things to different people.
To me it means being able to have a good lifestyle and standard of living for my family and my employees' families (check one for vegas),
it means having a stable workforce that can think for themselves (X one for vegas),
it means having confidence that my kids can grow up and get a solid education (X one for vegas), it means having government that ASSISTS you through processes instead of roadblocking you (X one for vegas).
I could go on. But for some companies (like the miners), it may mean "having access to lobbyists that allow you to rape the state, leave behind hazardous sludge, and pay the state little to nothing because the politicians can all be bought" (ONE HUGE DOUBLE CHECK MARK FOR VEGAS).
Or, for the casinos, pay 9% tax when your casinos in EVERY other state pay 40-50%......
yet, all the politicians say "don't tax mining, they provide jobs..." Why not? Will they leave and go to a state that HAS NO GOLD? I do not think the amount received by mining will even pay to clean up one of these sites let alone give the people of this state a fair share of the resources (look to Norway to see what this can achieve).
"don't tax the casinos, they will not build new ones", REALLY? even raising their tax FIVE FOLD would still leave NV as the LOWEST tax on the industry so where do you think they would move????
I wish politicians would just say the truth "these large business finance me and can run commercials for me with their SuperPACS and family businesses can only give me $2,500 at best"
Obama is helping us out with all the green jobs and stimulus enjoy while you can!
@BrianJ that survey is from 500 CEO's who run REAL businesses in 2011. Did you even bother to read the article and look at their findings? Course you didn't. Like most you want it easy and you definitely do not want to be sent into cognitive dissonance.
Here's a good one for everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaoSp4Npk...
This business about jobs is complete and utter bs frankly. Technology is replacing jobs 100x faster than jobs can be replaced. The issue is we have a monetary system which was outdated at least 10 years ago. Until we face that and move into a workable replacement, let the bickering over irrelevant nonsense continue. We simply cannot run a 21st century society using money from a monopoly game. Tech is taking it to zero. That is a fact.
Go watch that video and you tell me, should we outlaw that to save probably 50,000 telephone company jobs, or embrace it?
@stephen
Real businesses? You mean the ones that do not pay ANY taxes and contribute nothing to society? Like Google (2.3% tax), GE (tax REFUND yet reports profits) HP, Dell, Intel and all the oil companies and oil service companies.
Go out and start something stephen and shoot your big mouth off. The only cognitive dissonance I have is wondering why I play fair in a society that is full of cheaters paying off a government to keep tilting the board.
Three years ago and before that, my wife and I would go to Slots-of-Fun on the day we arrived to start off our visit before we hit the higher min. casinos. (Just to get things moving.) The last two years we discovered that Slots-of-Fun removed the craps table, removed the dealers and now everything is video craps, video blackjack and most of the slot machines have been removed. The place used to be packed; now it is mostly empty. With visitor counts up it would make sense to bring back the real action and real dealers to increase traffic. The craps table at the front of the Slots-of-Fun was a big drawing card. I have noticed that the action is now centered where the casinos have real people and old time games. Video machines may be where the generation X plays, but for us baby boomers bring back the real table games.
Maybe Gov BS can get his BFF, Righteous Rick Perry, to pray for more jobs for Nevadans. Just look how well his prayers for rain in Texas worked ...
Uh, never mind.
there are jobs available....
just go down to your local recruiter and sign up.
in a few weeks you'll be in afghanistan killing
muslims for george bush and the republicans...
and the pay's not all that bad either.
republicans will do anything to keep obama out of
the white house for a second term...
even if that takes you from getting a job.
last election republicans said they would make job
creation their upmost priority.
what a laugh !
republicans top priority is to get rid of obama.
shame !
@BrianJ We don't disagree. I think you just maybe need to calm down a bit.
As far as running a business, been there done that. Thanks for asking.
The governors idea of training for jobs is to add people to the jobs that he controls. He just did it to the taxi industry adding 388 jobs to the taxi business (authorizing more medalians). So now the drivers in the industry already will make less. Could make for more forclosures but at least more will be employed.
2 dollars is right. What do you think corporations are doing but holding jobs back while they make record profits. We have people fighting over crap jobs that don't pay them enough to get above the poverty line. If a Republican is voted in and they can get the tax breaks perm and can eliminate unions then watch all the jobs drop to mim wage. Pay attention people race no longer matters only green does. Y'all will be out in the field working if Republicans get their way.