In The News: Center for Business and Economic Research
For decades, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas has been known for single-deck blackjack.
For decades, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas has been known for single-deck blackjack.
The two-month casino shutdown in Nevada seems to have an end in sight.
Nevada’s April unemployment rate was the highest in state history and the worst of any state in the country, data released Friday show.
Restaurants inside casinos are now allowed to reopen. But that doesn’t mean they will.
Restaurants inside casinos are now allowed to reopen. But that doesn’t mean they will.
Restaurants inside casinos are now allowed to reopen. But that doesn’t mean they will.
Not all of Elon Musk’s projects have been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic. While the billionaire clashed this week with local officials over restarting production at a Tesla Inc. factory in California, his tunnel-drilling company hit a new milestone in Nevada.
Not all of Elon Musk’s projects have been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic. While the billionaire clashed this week with local officials over restarting production at a Tesla Inc. factory in California, his tunnel-drilling company hit a new milestone in Nevada.
Andrea Bensmiller and three bandmates were onstage at the Planet Hollywood resort on the Las Vegas Strip, performing for conventioneers during a big mid-March construction trade show when word came that she and thousands of other musicians, acrobats and entertainers were out of work.
The winking airport slot machines that tell visitors they have arrived in Nevada’s Sin City are turned off and wrapped in police tape; the famed Las Vegas Strip is so empty a group of bicyclists zooms down the middle on a Friday night.
The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits in Nevada is closing in on 390,000 since casinos and other businesses were shuttered to prevent spread of the coronavirus.