Rebecca Winthrop has studied education in some of the world's most violent and conflicted hot spots. The former head of education for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has studied how girls and refugees learn in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and Sudan. Can education cut down on militant extremism?
Nevada, like many states and countries, has always suffered from a flight of human capital, or “brain drain,” as it’s often called.
It’s pretty common knowledge by now that many states are drowning in red ink. Most notably, the weak economy has created operating gaps ranging from the hundreds of millions of dollars in Arizona to the tens of billions in California, Illinois, and New Jersey.
Gov. Brian Sandoval is right to declare himself “proudly optimistic” about Nevada’s prospects as he formulates his first budget.
For many American cities, the decade after 2000 played out in two starkly different scenes: Years of euphoric growth and prosperity followed by a crushing reversal.
When the economy was roaring and housing booming, reining in suburban sprawl dominated the development debate under the name of "smart growth."
Las Vegas is a little like the American auto companies that made a killing for years on big sport utility vehicles and trucks, only to find themselves unprepared when gasoline prices spiked and consumers turned to smaller, more efficient vehicles — usually from Asian manufacturers.
That’s no surprise. He was mostly right.
If Nevada escapes its current morass and in a couple of decades becomes a more prosperous, economically diverse and humane place, historians may view a UNLV conference, oddly enough, as a turning point.
Nevada’s higher education levels are holding the region back from diversifying its economy and the city has become a modern-day version of Pittsburgh or Detroit, which once relied on one sector for its growth to its detriment, the director of a UNLV-based think tank said today.
Nevada politicians are looking to out-of-state business and education leaders to identify industries that will help stimulate new business growth and promote economic diversification within the state.
Business, political and educational leaders from across Nevada – including representatives of all eight of the Nevada System of Higher Education institutions – will meet Friday, Jan. 7 to explore options to revive and diversify Nevada's economy.
Since Nevada 1.0 has kind of crashed, now is as good a time as any for a reboot. Enter Nevada 2.0, a conference that state leaders hope will help us power up again.
States in the Intermountain West like Nevada are likely to face budget challenges over the next decade. The reason? Poor planning and a lack of foresight in budget planning. That's according to a new report from Brookings Mountain West at UNLV. So do Nevadans and the state's elected leaders have the will to make things change?
Nevada is struggling against its epic fiscal crisis with the hope that when the recession finally subsides, governments will no longer face budget deficits.
Short-term fixes have masked longer-range issues with the state budget, a new report concludes.
Arizona suffers not only from a massive cyclical deficit but also a gargantuan structural deficit.
A report issued today by a regional think tank concludes that Nevada will have a tough time economically over the next 10 years and that state government revenue shortfalls cannot be handled only by cutting spending.
With Las Vegas’ economy among the worst in the world and studies urging more be done to help future growth, the state’s political leaders are holding a conference before the Nevada Legislature convenes to discuss diversifying the economy.
As a transient bunch, Las Vegans have historically shunned social connections. But a sense of community could grow from housing bog.
If highfliers such as Nevada and Arizona had not been battered by a troubled economy and the collapse of the housing market, the 2010 Census population counts released Tuesday might have been very different for the whole country.
A new survey released by the U.S. Census Bureau paints Southern Nevada as a more educated and diverse populace — at least according to community data gathered from 2005 through 2009.
A study released by the Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics ranked Las Vegas' economy as one of the world's five worst, due in large part to oversized bets on real estate.
Las Vegas is due for one more “miniboom,” not as robust as previous booms, but enough to become part of a Southwest “megaregion” with Los Angeles and Phoenix, the director of Brookings Mountain West said Tuesday.