Nevada highest in foreclosures, bankruptcies, now tops US in unemployment
By Roger Herman and Therese Leclerc
25 June 2010
A new round of attacks on wages and working conditions is being prepared in Nevada in the wake of the announcement of the latest unemployment figures on Friday.
The Nevada Department of Employment released figures showing that unemployment in Nevada reached 14 percent in May, up from 13.7 percent in April, which pushed the state’s jobless rate to the highest in the country.
The rate of joblessness in Nevada now surpasses even that of Michigan, where unemployment declined marginally in May to 13.6 percent. The midwestern state has had the highest rate for the last four years.
The May figures do not reflect the layoffs of workers temporarily hired for census work or college graduates, who are now entering the workforce.
Las Vegas, the largest city in Nevada, has been particularly hard hit by the rapid downturn in the economy. The city’s unemployment rate was 14.1 percent in May, while in Washoe County, around Reno, the second-largest city in Nevada, unemployment was 13.3 percent.
The rise in unemployment in Nevada is unprecedented. Since the recession began in December 2007, state joblessness has increased 8.8 percent, the biggest gain of any state in the country. A total of 180,000 jobs have disappeared, including 83,000 in the construction industry and 43,000 in leisure and hospitality.
One of the groups hardest hit in the current situation is teen workers. According to the Employment Policies Institute, a research organization that studies public policy issues surrounding entry-level employment, unemployment among teens in Nevada was 34.6 percent in April 2010. This is even higher than California, where 34.2 percent of teens were out of work that month.
Nevada also leads the country in foreclosures, bankruptcy filings and credit card delinquency.
RealtyTrac, an online real estate site for the sale of foreclosed properties, reported that Nevada’s foreclosure rate came to one in every 79 homes in May, more than five times the national average. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, more than half of homes with an active mortgage in the Reno-Sparks area are worth less than the balance of the mortgage.
The speed and magnitude of the economic deterioration in Nevada has astounded economists.
Bill Anderson, chief economist with the Nevada Department of Employment, told EducationNews.org, “If you’d asked me two years ago, when Nevada had essentially been the fastest-growing state in the nation for two decades running, one couldn’t have imagined that things would deteriorate this far.”
Anderson has been quoted in past months as saying that the state’s official figures of the unemployment rate underestimated the situation. When workers who have stopped searching for a job and people now working part-time who want full-time jobs are included, the true figure could be 75 percent higher.
Earlier this year, the Northern Nevada Business Weekly reported state projections that indicated utilities and healthcare would be the only sectors to see an employment increase this year. The May unemployment figures actually show a loss of 1,500 jobs in the education and health care services sector.
Larry Matheis, executive director of the Nevada State Medical Association told the Las Vegas Review Journal, “A lot of times what you do when you’re nervous about keeping your job or without a job, is put off going to the doctor.”
Friday’s announcement was followed by an intensification of the campaign waged by employers and state politicians for attacks on wages, conditions and the minimum wage.
Tom Fitzgerald, CEO of NevadaWorks, a public-private regional employment agency, told the Reno Gazette-Journal, “If we’re smart here in Nevada, we’ll use [the high level of unemployment] to our advantage.” According to the Gazette, “Fitzgerald said he thinks now is the right time to sell Nevada as a viable option for employers and businesses,” citing high vacancy rates, affordable leases, affordable housing and “an educated and underemployed work force.”
“These are bad things for individual living, but if we can turn it around in a business sense, we can show all of the assets Nevada has right now,” Fitzgerald added.
Republican governor Jim Gibbons blames the increase in unemployment on minimal taxes imposed on employers. According to Gibbons, the mere possibility of more taxes in the next state budget session, due in 2011, is preventing businesses from moving to Nevada.
The ongoing collapse of large sections of Nevada’s economy has raised the stakes in November’s senate race. Citing the unemployment figures, Harry Reid, ranking Democrat and senate majority leader, said the situation would have been even worse without the pro-business policies of the Democrats. “Through tax cuts for businesses and other incentives, we have prevented this bad situation from becoming even worse,” Reid wrote.
His challenger in a close senate race, Sharron Angle—a right-wing Republican—used the publication of the unemployment figures to advocate the phasing out Social Security for younger workers and the elimination of federal income taxes, along with the dissolution of the federal Education Department.
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LA RAZA HARRY REID, LIKE OBAMA, AND PELOSI, THERE IS SIMPLY NEVER AN UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER HIGH ENOUGH NOT TO PUSH FOR MORE ILLEGALS! THERE SIMPLY ISN’T A WAGE LOW ENOUGH TO KEEP BIG BUSINESS PAYMASTERS HAPPY!
HOW CAN WE GET MORE ILLEGALS FLOODING OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS, WELFARE LINES, AND PRISONS?
THE LA RAZA DEMS BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY CONTINUES!
Immigration Reform? Divide and Piecemeal
By Chad MacDonald, - posted on NumbersUSA
Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) is a major hot button issue right now thanks to Senator Russell Pierce (R-Ariz.) creating and Governor Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) signing Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law. Arizona SB1070 has done more to raise immigration awareness in the general public than any other single event since the amnesty battle of 2007. And now on the national scene, it looks like open-border advocates are going to divide their efforts and piece together a hopeful CIR down payment with the DREAM Act and Ag Jobs bill.
Nonetheless, Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) continues to desperately look for GOP support on his 26-page Reid/Schumer/Menendez amnesty proposal. Last week President Barack Obama urged Republicans to work with him. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement that he "noted" that several Republicans have supported immigration before, and urged them to do so again.
"Obviously, there were continued differences on some of these issues. But, the President believes that direct dialogue is better than posturing, and he was pleased to have the opportunity to share views with the conference," Gibbs said.
The DREAM Act has bipartisan support from Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.). It would allow illegal aliens who came to this country as children to become permanent residents if they attend college or enroll in the military. That’s an amnesty.
The Ag Jobs bill would allow illegal farm workers and agricultural guest workers to become permanent residents. That’s another amnesty.
Here’s where it gets tricky. Reid obviously wants his full immigration reform package to find GOP support and move it to a bill. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is riding shotgun on the CIR trail. Enter in Durbin with the DREAM Act, which some feel would pass more easily in conjunction with Ag Jobs support from conservative farm states, and you have a top heavy Democratic Leadership pushing immigration reform into the midterm election cycle.
Anything could happen over the next 4 weeks!
There is limited time on the Senate calendar but high stakes for Reid facing a difficult reelection in Nevada, which has a large Hispanic population. If they go after the low-hanging fruit it could have devastating long term effects on the CIR movement. But keep in mind, that as Majority Leader, Reid has the capacity to divide and piecemeal, and to bring whatever he wants to the floor. Get ready for another amnesty push from the White House.
CHAD MACDONALD is the Director of Social Media Marketing for NumbersUSA
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HISPANDERER HARRY REID, AND THE EVER EXPANDING MEX WELFARE STATE
"The cost to our taxpayers is astronomical " (Reid for open borders!)
Emergency Room Treatment for Illegal Aliens in Las Vegas Costs Taxpayers $2 Million per Month
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 1:18 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA
Las Vegas Unversity Medical Center
A report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal found that illegal aliens receiving dialysis treatment were costing the hospital more than $2 million per month. Nevada taxpayers are forced to pay for a situation that the report says "continues to worsen."
Officials say the lack of enforcing immigration laws is making a bad situation worse as the University Medical Center in Las Vegas looks to face a $70 million budgetary shortfall in 2010. They say attempts to encourage illegal aliens to receive the treatment in their home countries hasn't worked.
"The cost to our taxpayers is astronomical," said Lawrence Weekly, a Clark County commissioner and chairman of the UMC board of hospital trustees. "Many people are justifiably outraged. If this kind of thing goes on, we might have to close our doors. But we're governed by federal law on this issue so some way the federal government has to help us out. We just can't stand by and let people die in the streets. We wouldn't want that on our conscience."
The article says that a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said over the summer that Reid would push for increased funding for hospitals that helped illegal aliens, but the funding hasn't materialized.
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“Unfortunately, the bill does not require that these new workers be legal or that employers use E-Verify to confirm their work authorization. Moreover, Congressional staffers have confirmed that Senator Reid has already invoked a procedural maneuver that blocks any and all amendments to the bill.”
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Reid Jobs Bill Goes to Floor Monday; Aids Employers Who Hire Illegal Aliens
Senators and Congressional aides braced Monday for the first test of Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid’s jobs bill—a cloture vote. This vote, set for Monday evening, will determine whether the Senate can proceed with debate on the jobs bill, also called the “Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” or HIRE Act. At this time, reports from Capitol Hill are mixed as to whether there will be enough votes (60 are required) to pass a cloture vote.
Senator Reid introduced the HIRE Act last week hoping to focus on the issue of jobs and the economy, but disappointed immigration reformers by leaving out any mandate that jobs created by the bill go to U.S. workers. The bill has two major tax provisions, an exemption from payroll taxes for employers who hire new employees in 2010 and a $1,000 tax credit for employers who keep those employees for at least 52 weeks. Unfortunately, the bill does not require that these new workers be legal or that employers use E-Verify to confirm their work authorization. Moreover, Congressional staffers have confirmed that Senator Reid has already invoked a procedural maneuver that blocks any and all amendments to the bill.
Stay tuned to FAIR for more information on this bill and other legislation that impacts the American worker.
FUNDING FOR LA RAZA “THE RACE” – THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY (DO SEARCH FOR LA RAZA ON BLOG)
YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAYING FOR THE 'Reconquista' OF MEXICAN OCCUPIED AMERICAN SOUTHWEST.
THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA ‘THE RACE” FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY
By Dave Gibson (09/17/2006) http://americandaily.com/article/15577
In 2005, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15.2 million in U.S. federal grants. La Raza also received an additional $4 million in so-called 'earmarks' tucked into the 2005 Housing Bill, which our Congress passed and President Bush signed. Considering the racist agenda of La Raza, giving federal funds to this group is tantamount to the U.S. funding the Nazis in the 1930's. The comparison to the Nazi Party is well deserved. La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out of a portion of the United States (ethnic cleansing – DO A SEARCH ON THE BLOG, OR LOS ANGELES TIMES ON MEXICAN GANGS MURDERING BLACKS IN LOS ANGELES TO “ETHNICALLY CLEANSE THEIR HOODS), they call for 'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico (the re-occupation of the Sudetanland), and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states (Adolf Hitler planned to called his utopia Germania). Karl Rove was one of the keynote speakers at this year's annual National Council of La Raza Conference. The event was held in Los Angeles (the eventual capital of Atzlan). Other speakers included Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, and the virulent racist L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The fact that Karl Rove is the President's top political adviser and addressed the group with Bush's blessing, is a strong indicator that this nation is being subverted at the very highest levels. If La Raza was a white supremacist group with equally deep pockets, the U.S. government would place them on a terrorist watch list, infiltrate them with undercover FBI agents, and subject them to constant harassment by the Internal Revenue Service. Eventually, the group's leaders would be jailed and the group itself would be rendered irrelevant. However, because La Raza is a Latino supremacist group, the Bush administration and most of Congress offer them financial support!
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YOUR LA RAZA DEMS AT WORK!
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That same year, La Raza gave Sen. Reid their Capital Award for "his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino community."
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One of La Raza's biggest supporters is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). In 2001, Reid asked the Senate Appropriations Committee for $5 million to help further the racist goals of that organization. That same year, La Raza gave Sen. Reid their Capital Award for "his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino community." Reid in turn praised La Raza by saying: "La Raza is like the biblical David (MEXICAN OCCUPIERS?), fighting all these Goliaths (AMERICAN PEOPLE?)."
Taxpayer funds are also funneled to La Raza through the Department of Health and Human Services, The Environmental Protection Agency, and even NASA. Tax dollars are hidden in these government agencies, earmarked to be specifically given away to La Raza. Inside the halls of Congress, the practice is known as discretionary funding...In the real world it is known as money laundering! In 2005, $7.9 million was stolen from the American taxpayers and given out to Latino-only charter schools in the form of U.S. Department of Education grants. The following is a list of a few of those schools: -La Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Los Angeles) -Atzlan Academy (Tucson, AZ) -Mexicayotl Academy (Nogales, AZ) -The Dolores Huerta Prepatory High School (Pueblo, CO) -Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School (St. Paul, MN) These schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the reconquest of the American Southwest, ethnic cleansing and the establishment of the mythical Atzlan, and even Aztec math!...Again, all taught on your dime! According to the Capital Research Center, La Raza has assets well in excess of $50 million. This same group reports that La Raza spends about $1 million annually on lobbying and fundraising. Can you imagine a high-ranking member of the Roosevelt administration making a trip to Berlin to show support for the Nazi Party? Or perhaps the Congress appropriating money to the Ku Klux Klan? While those scenarios both sound absurd, the support that our elected officials are giving to the racist group known as La Raza is no different. One has to wonder, if the KKK offered extremely cheap labor to unscrupulous American businesses and potential votes to equally unscrupulous politicians...Would Congress fund whites-only charter schools?
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