Nevada unemployment sets record

11.3%. That is high. But what gets me is that records only started being kept in 1976. I'm having a hard time believing that. We have unemployment figures going back to the depression, but nothing for the state of Nevada before 1976? We have to have something before 76.

The scary thing is unemployment only tells 1/2 the story. How many people have had their hours cut. It seems like everyone I know falls into this group. State of Nevada employees being furlowed one day a month, hospital workers either getting their pay cut outright, told they will be only working 35 hours a week or even nurses being called off due to lack of patients. All these people are not unemployed, yet they have been forced to cut back on their spending. I'd bet some would be better off, at least in the short term if they were laid off. Between how little they make, the cost of day care and what they would get from unemployment insurance.