Las Vegas jobless rate still highest in US among big metros
Thursday 29 de July 2021 / 10:29
2 minutos de lectura
(Las Vegas).- Las Vegas’ economy has come a long way since the early chaos of the pandemic, but its jobless rate still hovers over the rest of the country.
An estimated 9.6 percent of the Las Vegas area’s workforce was unemployed last month, the highest percentage in the nation among large metro areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Los Angeles was a close second at 9.5 percent.
Nationally, 6.1 percent of the workforce was unemployed last month, with Salt Lake City boasting the lowest jobless rate among large metro areas at 3.2 percent, the bureau reported.
The coronavirus outbreak sparked huge job losses nationwide last year and kept people home and away from crowds for fear of getting infected, devastating the tourism industry, the backbone of Las Vegas’ casino-heavy economy.
Las Vegas’ jobless rate, just 3.6 percent in February of 2020, shot past 33 percent last April after Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered casinos and other Nevada businesses closed to help prevent the virus from spreading, federal data shows.
America’s casino capital has seen a surge of visitors this year as vaccines rolled out, bringing big crowds back to the once-eerily quiet Strip. But the local unemployment rate, despite dropping significantly since last spring, has been among the highest nationally throughout the pandemic.
By Eli Segalli
Categoría:Gaming
Tags: Sin tags
País: United States
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