As noted earlier this year in a UNLV-Brookings Institute Study, The Las Vegas Latino community is still in recession. That means the need for services -- including housing assistance, foreclosure help, and health access -- remains high as the economy improves generally. Yet, according to workers on the ground, the new trend in the community is to shun those services.
Las Vegas and Phoenix are linked by a road that narrows to two lanes, hits stoplights in a Depression-era town and until recently backed up traffic over the Hoover Dam.
The world is facing another crisis because of Russia's push to keep Ukraine within its sphere of influence. But this is what we should expect, says foreign policy expert, Bruce Jones. The world was unusually quiet during the past 20 years but Russia and China no longer want to play that game and so we can expect more crises in coming years. Bruce Jones will be speaking tonight at the World Affairs Council of Las Vegas and tomorrow night at UNLV. He joins us ahead of those appearances.
For several years, Southern Nevada lawmakers have complained about how our region has been slighted by state government and the Legislature, pointing to how taxpayer money and state resources have habitually been diverted north. Those complaints have solicited little more than shrugs or blanket denials from lawmakers from the rest of the state.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Nevada should offer more educational opportunities and pursue economic diversification to combat the high unemployment rate among the state's Hispanic population. That's the conclusion of a study from Brookings Mountain West, a partnership between the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) and the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution.
A new report from UNLV Brookings Mountain West shows unemployment among Hispanics in Nevada surged during the recession, outpacing the jobless rate among other groups, and has been slow to bounce back.
Transportation problems, from poor planning to terrible congestion, can impede economic development. And while Las Vegas currently does a pretty good job connecting workers to available jobs on public transportation, the region may need to improve transportation options to attract diverse and high-tech employers. So what parts of our traffic system are working well? And what do we need to improve?
Nevada’s Hispanic population has surged in the last decade, increasing from 19.7 percent of the total population in 2000 to 27.3 percent in 2012, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures.
San Diego voters did something highly unusual last Tuesday: They elected a Republican as mayor.
San Diego will now be the largest city in the country with a Republican mayor, Kevin Faulconer, who has been serving on its city council. The next largest is Indianapolis.
Migration is a major factor in economic growth - whether it's attracting new highly-skilled migrants to the U.S. or the massive wave of workers flooding urban areas in China, Brazil and elsewhere to create new manufacturing industries. But how can we control it? And what is the best migration policy?
When Victor Valdez started Precision Diamonds with a kiosk at the old Park Lane Mall, he didn’t know much about what he was doing.
The war in Afghanistan has not ended with the democratic state that the United States had hoped to leave behind. Right now, the government is negotiating to ensure some security and stability after American troops leave in 2014. So what went wrong? And what can be done now? Vanda Felbab-Brown will be examining those questions at UNLV on Wednesday and she joins us ahead of that lecture to look at problems in America's longest war.
Unemployment in the Latino community remains high in Nevada, despite years of economic recovery. Other groups have been quicker to return to work, but Latino workers have increasingly dropped out of the work force or endured long stretches of unemployment. Why has the recession hit the Hispanic community so much harder than other groups? And what needs to happen to help them recover?
Should the federal government build a highway from Las Vegas to Phoenix? Many community and business leaders in Las Vegas believe such a road could help boost the economy in Southern Nevada. But residents in some of the communities in the path of the proposed interstate aren't so sure.
The comeback continues. Las Vegas made solid progress in its economic recovery in the third quarter, according to the Brookings Mountain West Mountain Monitor, a report that tracks the economies of 10 cities in the Intermountain West.
Aunque la economía en Nevada se está fortaleciendo, la tasa de desempleo entre los hispanos no se ha recuperado, de acuerdo con un nuevo estudio.
Los investigadores de Brookings Mountain West —una asociación entre la Universidad de Nevada en Las Vegas y el Instituto Brookings, un centro de análisis con sede en Washington DC— encontró que el desempleo entre los latinos se incrementó durante la recesión y no se ha recuperado.
When Motorola Mobility lined up a Silicon Valley candidate a few months ago for a VP-level role, the phone maker was hopeful he'd accept. After all, the company offered the chance to develop products at a subsidiary of Google Inc.
Persuading tech companies to move to Las Vegas can be a tough sell.
Governor Brian Sandoval today issued the following statement after learning that UNLV President Neal Smatresk is resigning.
The cost of going to college is rising. No matter what the rate of inflation, tuition has been going up four or five percent annually. So are colleges pricing themselves out of the market? Is the debt burden so great that it negates the additional earning power of a college degree? And should the community be putting more money into state and community colleges because it is a societal benefit?
The UNLV Campus Improvement Authority Board will begin seeking applications next month for an experienced consulting company who will help study how state, university and business leaders can build an on-campus stadium that they hope will bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the Las Vegas economy. The 11-member stadium authority has been charged by the Legislature with studying and recommending a cost, scope and financing plan for a UNLV football stadium that will host several major events each year. The consulting company, which is expected to be hired by mid-December, will serve the role of a project manager and help the stadium board deliver a comprehensive report to state lawmakers by Sept. 30.