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Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 | 9:27 a.m.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s unemployment rate fell to 11.8 percent in September while the rate in Las Vegas dropped to 11.5 percent from the previous month, the lowest it has been in at least two years.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said he was encouraged by the numbers, noting that export activity is up one-third over last year and that Nevada is taking a more prominent place in the world’s economy.
But the state’s unemployment rate is still behind the national average of 7.8 percent as Nevada recorded its 21st consecutive month of double-digit unemployment.
Bill Anderson, chief economist for the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, which released the numbers, said the figures show the state moving in a positive direction.
Through the first three quarters of the year, private businesses statewide have added 12,000 more jobs compared to the same nine months in 2011, Anderson said.
Elsewhere in the state, the unemployment rate in Washoe County fell from 11.5 percent to 10.8 percent, and Carson City’s unemployment rate dipped to 10.9 percent compared to 11.6 percent in August.
First-time claims for unemployment dropped to 13,932, the lowest level since before the recession started in 2007.
Slow progress, but at least it is progress..
Another phony number that does not include people who are underemployed or have given up the hunt.
It's not a phoney number. Most of those who have given up the job hunt are actually baby boomers who are retiring. This will continue in the coming years.
notacon: you can't be serious with that post. you truly are lost. hey I have a bridge in Alaska for sale.
Not a single indication that there are any more EMPLOYEES anywhere in Nevada. Sounds like the State Pollsters who call up to see how many people are looking for work (to get the Un.rate) couldn't COMPLETE THE PHONE CALLS.
Could be from early seasonal hiring. But then again maybe some folks need to get out of their bubble and drive around the city. I've seen numerous tenants moving into once vacant store fronts. But no, that would mean hirings.
"The economy is the most important thing in the election and the most important thing that voters care about," even as the debate has turned to other issues, said Stephen Hess, a presidential historian at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
THE ECONOMY IS INDEED IMPORTANT. AS WE'VE SEEN BEFORE, ITS THE ECONOMY $T^PID.
Issues of unemployment and more people asking for unemployment aid are issues of the economy. That is where we find ourselves at this juncture. Please cut / paste http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/... What the left hand is giving, the right hand is taking away. For instance,Ohios unemployment just went down - but Pennsylvania's just went up. A quarter of 100 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. Ostensibly, we have the unemployment where we started, but MANY have left the job market since. Like the real feel in temperature can be much colder on a 29 degree day, the real feel on underemployment and unemployment is much worse than the number would indicate.
In early October 2012, CNN asked Economists for their take as to WHO would be better for the economy. Between a President Mitt Romney or a Mr. Obama, a President Mitt Romney was the Economists preferred choice by a ratio of 3 to 1. Seventeen economists were asked. Five opted out. A large majority of 9 maintained that a President MITT ROMNEY would be BEST FOR THE ECONOMY, while only 3 out of 12 thought a Mr. Obama would.
Its not just a majority of Economists who say a change will do us good. Its not just capable businessman and United States Naval Academy Graduate H Ross Perot who tells us change will do us good. Its not just businesswoman and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Carly Fiorina telling us that a President Mitt Romney would be best for the economy. Its not just folks like turnaround quarterback Lee Iococca. Latest national poll by Gallup updated at 4 am today Friday 10-19-2012 , when asked between choosing a President Mitt Romney versus a president Obama has 52 percent choosing a President Mitt Romney; only 47 percent choosing Mr. Obama. Please cut paste http://www.gallup.com/poll/157817/electi... Relative to polling methodology which includes cell phones,please cut/paste http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-l... and please cut / paste http://video.foxnews.com/v/1916262959001... No candidate for presidency has gone on to win the presidency while polling below 50 percent this late in the election season.
While Mr Obama presides over a quarter of 100 million Americans who are unemployed or under-employed, he says he'll cut the deficit in half and proceeds to balloon it to 16 trillion dollars and compounding daily. We remember that Mr. Obama rightly implied that he understood that if he can't fix this thing (the economy), he, too, suggested there would be a change a-coming at the highest office in the land. On this count, he was right to say this.
Mr. Obama's removal from office via the stroke of The Voter's pen is THE real path to hope and change that the majority of economists and others in-the-know when it comes to things economic, predict. Men, women and children alike deserve THAT kind of hope and change.