Statewide unemployment down to 6.5 percent in Nevada

Nevada’s statewide unemployment rate fell three tenths of a percent from June to July, finishing the month at 6.5 percent.That’s in contrast to the seasonally adjusted rate which employment security officials say actually increased a tenth to 6.5 percent.Gov. Brian Sandoval touted the news saying job growth has almost regained all of the 175,000 jobs lost at the height of the recession. Most of that job growth is in the same industries that were hardest hit by the economic downturn &