Nevada has a 70% vacancy rate for Department of Transportation workers and there are major road projects waiting to be started. From MyNews4.com:
The Nevada Department of Transportation’s (NDOT) overall vacancy rate for highway maintenance staff in North Western Nevada is nearly 65%.
Approximately, 55% of the NDOT workforce makes less than $50, 000 dollars a year, and in the last 14 years, state employees only saw an increase of 8%, and they say the next step lies in the hands of the governor’s office.
Unfortunately, that’s not Nevada’s only problem because there is also a severe shortage of nurses in the state. From the TheNevadaIndependent.com
The article purposefully ignores the reality that all hospitals in Southern Nevada and our country are facing — a national nursing shortage that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
But wait, there’s more! Nevada’s problems don’t stop at a shortage of transportation workers or nurses because there is also a shortage of day care. From KNPR.org:
But there’s one supply shortage that’s sticking around and Nevada and other states are trying to figure out what to do about it. It’s the lack of child care.
Every Nevada county, both rural and urban, is a child-care desert, according to the Governor’s Office of Workforce Innovation. Nationally, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are 100,000 fewer child-care workers than before the pandemic.
KNPR.org
Finally, Nevada has a shortage of teachers just like every other state in the union and according to NAR, it has a robust migration of 20,000 people to the state but that didn’t seem to help much given the severity of the demographic problem.
Keep in mind that 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement age every day and when 10 or 20 million boomers retire over the next few years, the problem will only get worse. Stay tuned, stay profitable and stay solvent…