Unemployment trust fund back up to $341 million

Nevada’s unemployment trust fund, decimated by the recession, has climbed back to $341.3 million as of this week, Employment Security Administrator Renee Olson told the Employment Security Council on Tuesday.But Olson said after the meeting that’s still only about a third of the $1.2 billion the fund would need to survive a year-long recession without again borrowing from the federal government.At the height of the recession, Nevada had some 140,000 workers getting weekly checks and was pay