State launches program to help jobless find work

Nevada’s employment division has launched a pair of programs to help those workers most likely left behind during the recession to find jobs.The state’s December unemployment rate hit 6.8 percent, the lowest it has been since June 2008 and down 2.2 percent from the same month a year earlier. In Reno-Sparks, the rate fell to 6.2 percent, down 2 percent from the same month in 2013, while in Carson City the ra