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CARSON CITY — Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak issued the following statement Sunday evening after President Trump signed into law the bipartisan appropriations and coronavirus relief deal reached by Congress last week, H.R. 133.

The Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation announced Wednesday that Nevada submitted its application Tuesday for the Lost Wages Assistance Grant Program created by President Donald Trump under Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation announced Tuesday that with the goal of helping Nevadans facing unemployment due to the global pandemic, Governor Sisolak gave the authorization for Nevada to start the application process to participate in the Lost Wages Assistance Program created by President Donald Trump under Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Gov. Steve Sisolak’s office said he is disappointed that there’s no legislation to extend unemployment benefits that are fully paid by the federal government, and that the state is analyzing the cost of an executive order President Donald Trump announced this weekend calling for states to pay a portion of a $400-per-week add-on.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Initial claims for unemployment benefits in Nevada fell to 39,145 for the week ending April 18. That is a third fewer than the ...

Cecilia Gonzalez made her first call to Nevada’s unemployment office last Friday at 7:59 a.m., hoping that she might snag an open line the minute the agency opened to resolve a sticking point in her claim about her work history and eligibility.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nearly 245,000 people have filed for unemployment in Nevada since casinos and other businesses closed in mid-March, ...

The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) is still seeing record number of initial claims for unemployment insurance each week. As the agency continues to experience high volume of claims entering the system, the agency’s number one priority is supporting Nevadans’ unemployment needs.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — With its online claims filing system rapidly becoming overwhelmed by the number of people seeking benefits, Nevada's ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — While Nevada's raw unemployment rate actually increased in January, the seasonally adjusted rate fell a tenth to 3.6 percent.

That produced jobless rates of just 2.6 percent in Reno, 3.3 percent in Carson City and 3.5 percent in Las Vegas. Schmidt pointed out those numbers ...

Carson City experienced the highest percentage of employment growth in March among Nevada's metropolitan areas, adding 4.4 percent more jobs, according to recent state-released figures. But at 5.6 percent, Carson City's jobless rate remains higher than the state as a whole, which finished March ...

The number of jobs created statewide as of November 2017 continue to set state employment records in Nevada's major metropolitan areas of Clark and Washoe counties, according to a November 2017 report released by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR).

Nevada added 1,800 jobs over the month in November, bringing total employment to 1.35 million, a gain of 35,100 jobs since November of last year that amounts to a growth rate of 2.7 percent, compared to 1.4 percent nationwide, according to figures released Wednesday by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

The jobless rate for the greater Reno-Sparks area fell to 4 percent in September as the region's robust job growth continued to swell with a growing ...

Nevada's unemployment rate in September held steady from August at 4.9 percent, according to figures released Wednesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Nevada’s metro areas of Las Vegas, Reno/Sparks and Carson City saw slight increases in the July unemployment rate, however the overall numbers have decreased year over year, according to figures released Tuesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Carson City's jobless numbers in June edged down slightly from May and over the year decreased by 1.5 percent resulting in a 4.6 percent unemployment rate for the month, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

April job growth happened in all three of Nevada's metro areas with Carson City having its largest over-the-year decline of 1.5 percentage points bringing unemployment for the month to 5 percent, according to a report released Tuesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Carson City unemployment held at 5.9 percent in February while Reno-Sparks jobless fell to 4.6 percent and Las Vegas remained steady at 5.1 percent, according to figures released Tuesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Nevada’s unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent in February, the first time it has been below 5 percent since November 2007, according to figures released Wednesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. The jobless rate ticked down one-tenth of a percentage point from January, from 5 percent.

In February, 10,278 initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits were filed in Nevada, a decline of 10 percent from February of last year when claims were 11,429, according to figures released Monday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

CARSON CITY, NV— In Las Vegas, the jobless rate stands at 5.1 percent for January, while Reno/Sparks unemployment is below the statewide rate of 5 percent at just 4.7 percent. Carson City’s unemployment rate is 5.9 percent.

Unemployment for the first month of 2017 in Nevada fell to 5 percent, the lowest it has been since late 2007, according to figures released Wednesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

The unemployment rate in Carson City remained unchanged in December at 5.3 percent, with Reno/Sparks also unchanged at 4.2 percent, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

I volunteer a lot of my time. Every potential client gets 30 minutes on the phone with me. I work with community organizations to support local causes. Advocates to End Domestic Violence is one of those. Each holiday, I usually write something about the importance of volunteerism. Yet, the power and two-way benefit of volunteerism didn’t hit me until I returned home to Carson City.

Unemployment in Carson City fell to 6.5 percent in July after seeing a slight increase in June, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Employment growth continued in July with 4,700 jobs added or 31,900 more than a year ago, according to figures released Wednesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. Statewide unemployment however, did rise slightly to a seasonally-adjusted 6.5 percent.

Nevada’s unemployment rate rose slightly to a seasonally-adjusted 6.4 percent in June, but experienced strong job growth in trade, transportation and utility sectors, according to figures released Wednesday by the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Carson City bucked the Silver State's two other metro areas in May with a decline in unemployment, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation

The capital city's jobless rate fell both annually and over the month to 6.5 percent from April's 6.7 percent. The jobless rate in Reno/Sparks rose slightly to 5.5 percent and also increased slightly in Las Vegas to 6.4 percent.