July 22, 2021, 5:49pm Clark County Business
Clark County’s labor market maintained its recovery momentum in June with a seasonally adjusted net gain of 700 jobs, according to the latest report from regional economist Scott Bailey. The county added 1,400 jobs in June in unadjusted terms, for a total of 167,700 jobs. Read story
July 2, 2021, 5:25pm Business
The county’s barometer for a recovering labor market, continued unemployment claims, continued a downward trend last week but still remained at a high number. Read story
June 24, 2021, 5:39pm Business
Clark County’s job market continued to improve during May, and many sectors, including retail trade, are back to — or even better than — before the COVID-19 pandemic. Read story
June 18, 2021, 5:29pm Business
Clark County residents’ initial unemployment insurance claims are back to pre-pandemic levels, according to the Employment Security Department; last week, initial claims dropped substantially, from 455 to 317 and 225 were already in the ESD’s system going back to the first week of the pandemic. Read story
June 13, 2021, 6:05am Business Subscriber Exclusive
The coronavirus pandemic triggered an immediate and seismic shift in the professional office landscape, sending entire offices home for 15 months of remote work and forcing companies to grapple with unexplored questions about how much of their work actually requires a professional office setting. Read story
May 28, 2021, 6:05am Business
The number of employed residents of Clark County decreased in April, according to new estimates that could be revised upward when more accurate data is available in a few months. Read story
May 23, 2021, 6:07am Business
Southwest Washington business community leaders held their annual Legislative Review on Friday, quizzing lawmakers from the 17th, 18th and 49th districts about their work during this year’s session and their biggest priorities going forward. Read story
May 22, 2021, 6:01am Business Subscriber Exclusive
COVID relief comes with a price — lots of paperwork to show the government Read story
May 20, 2021, 7:13pm Business
Washington was hit with another round of fraudulent unemployment insurance claims, and some of them may have come from Clark County. Because of the state’s fraud detection, no money has been paid to those claims. Read story
May 18, 2021, 5:59am Business
Several of Clark County’s biggest business associations are rolling out a coordinated vaccination campaign called Safe By Summer, calling on local employers of all sizes to pledge that they will aim to have at least 80 percent of their staff fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Aug. 15. Read story
