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Stunning and stark numbers are showing the effect of casino and business closures enacted in Nevada in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After being forced to close for over two months in an attempt to slow to the spread of COVID-19, many "non-essential" Nevada businesses are being allowed to re-open on Friday as Phase 2 of Nevada's "Roadmap To Recovery" gets underway.

Nevada has launched a system to accept weekly claims from non-traditional workers for unemployment benefits authorized by the federal government.

About 20,000 more Nevada residents filed first-time unemployment claims last week, pushing the number of jobless claims filed since mid-March to almost one-third of the entire workforce in the state in February, the U.S. Labor Department says.

Unemployment insurance filers will continue to be afforded the work search waiver until further notice, Gov. Steve Sisolak and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

The U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday that more than 45,000 Nevadans filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week.

It’s hard to overstate just how disastrous the COVID-19 pandemic has been for U.S. jobs. In total, the country has lost over 22 million jobs, wiping out years of gains since the last big economic crisis, the Great Recession.

41,000 new unemployment applications were reported for Nevada on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

More than 60,000 Nevada residents filed unemployment claims last week, bringing to more than 300,000 the number of out-of-work people seeking benefit checks since casinos and businesses closed in mid-March amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to federal figures.

Today, Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen announced that she has accepted a n appointment by the President to join the Congressional Task Force to Re-Open America.