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Nevada shows little sign it's joining other states in rising out of the recession
The federal Bureau of Economic Analysis offers a bleak picture on Nevada's general economic condition. The BOE reports that Nevada workers suffered an average income decline in 2009 that was the worst of any state in the country. Workers' earnings in Nevada fell by 7.6 percen., Rents, interest and dividends fell by 9.3 percent. And payments from government for unemployment and other safety net programs rose by nearly 20 percent. Meanwhile studies continue to analyze Nevada's razor thin tax base with an eye to figuring out how to broaden it so that lawmakers will have something to work with when the legilsature reconvenes in regular session next February.