In The News: Center for Business and Economic Research
RTC of Southern Nevada is looking ahead for more transit options decades into the future, warning that commute times will grow unless more people take public transit, and more public transit options are created.
Recent economic data suggests Nevada’s labor market is restructuring as workers move between jobs. And like the rest of the state, the Las Vegas metro area is also seeing high rates of churn — or the pace of workers moving between jobs.
Recent economic data suggests Nevada’s labor market is restructuring as workers move between jobs. And like the rest of the state, the Las Vegas metro area is also seeing high rates of churn — or the pace of workers moving between jobs.
Michelle Boyce recently left her position as a career development specialist for Tech Impact, a Las Vegas nonprofit that helps young adults gain job skills and find work. She began casually looking for jobs this summer and finally took an account manager position at the Las Vegas-based IT staffing firm Taurean Consulting last month.
More than three million people will live in Nevada by 2060, and the Nevada Department of Transportation is planning for the surge of people on the roads.
The valley bracing for more people. We have now learned by 2060 a million more people are coming.
According to the latest statistics from the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR), nearly 1.5 million Nevadans are now in the workforce, and those ranks are expected to continue to grow.
On this week’s Friday news round up, the team laments over some of our small city’s big problems. Lead producer Sonja Cho Swanson wonders how the demographics of our city could change, after reading a UNLV study that says Las Vegas’ population will grow by over 1 million people by 2060.
It is expected that with funds of 160 million dollars, 4,000 houses will be built.
It is expected that with funds of 160 million dollars, 4,000 houses will be built.
By 2040 alone, the population in Clark County is expected to grow by 698,000 residents, according to CBER’s research, pushing the local population past the 3 million mark.
According to a study by UNLV researchers, Southern Nevada’s population is expected to grow to an estimated 3.39 million by 2060.