Las Vegas, still suffering a 13% unemployment record, needs a little good news. Today a furniture company based in Montreal, Canada, announced it was opening a 390,000 square foot warehouse at the end of May. Most of the 200 new positions will be filled between March and April, but some people are already [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 28, 2009
California’s SolarReserve is planning on building a solar power plant near Tonopah, Nevada, with a twist. The project involves using salt to store solar energy, for those less than sunny days. The project still needs to be approved by the Bureau of Land Management which owns a majority of the land in Nevada, and the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
23 states saw an increase in their jobless rate last month. 43 states lost jobs in September while only 7 states saw an increase. Because the unemployment rate does not count long term unemployed who have stopped looking for work, several states lost jobs but saw a drop in the unemployment figures anyway. Nevada [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
Targetopened a new store in Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb, on Sunday. The store created 165 jobs in the Las Vegas valley, which is reeling from a 13.4% jobless rate, the highest in the state. This is one of twenty six new stores Target is opening, creating 5000 jobs overall. Target is the fifth [...]
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Monday, January 11, 2010
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