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CARSON CITY – Nevada’s nation-leading 14 percent May unemployment rate announced today shows job losses are beginning to affect local governments after months of avoiding layoffs during a more than two-year long economic slowdown.

CARSON CITY – Jobless benefits will resume quickly to Nevada’s eligible unemployed residents if Congress passes legislation to again extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs that expired on June 2, a state agency reported today.
There are about 70,000 people receiving EUC benefits in Nevada.

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Nevada is being lumped into a category it shares with several other states as being the hardest hit by the recession.

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While many parts of the country appear to be pulling out of the worst recession in 80+ years, Nevada continues to languish endlessly.

State employment office officials report that Nevada’s jobless rate rose nearly a full point in December, from 12.3% in November to 13.1% in December.

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State employment experts say more and more Nevada residents are not finding work in their home state, and so many are leaving.

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Yes Nevada’s jobless rate fell in October. But it fell possibly due to many people no longer looking or registering for work out of weariness or frustration.

Unemployment Rises Above 10 PercentBy Don Lee and Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles Tim

Jobless benefits extended By GEOFF DORNAN gdornan@nevadaappeal.com

Here's a good story on the economy.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20090922/NEWS/909229998/1070&ParentProfile=1058

WASHINGTON - It's the clearest sign yet the recession is finally ending: Employers laid off far fewer workers in July, the jobless rate dipped for the first time in 15 months and workers' hours and pay edged upward.

WASHINGTON - Even though new claims for jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, dipping below 600,000 for the first time since early January, the number of Americans seeking this safety net points to an economy that is still very...