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Las Vegas coronavirus cases have skyrocketed, but casinos are still open: 'Nobody wants to see them closed down again'

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Las Vegas has been seeing an increase in coronavirus cases for several weeks now, and the timing of that increase coincides well with Nevada's "Phase 2" reopening, which began on May 29. Casinos reopened shortly thereafter on June 4.
Nevada's governor now requires masks to be worn in public, with some exceptions.
The state's economy relies heavily on tourists, and a surge in cases could force businesses to close again.
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No need to bling it out, but face masks are now mandatory at casinos, restaurants, and all other businesses in Nevada starting Friday.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sysolak (Democrat) hopes that the public mask mandate, which public health officials have emphasized can help limit some of the spread of coronavirus from person to person, will help tame a troubling rise in coronavirus cases in the state, which relies heavily on tourism.

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“Sisolek announced new mask rules last week that will apply to all public spaces.

So far, at least one Las Vegas casino worker has died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. As local ABC affiliate KNTV first reported on Friday, Adolfo Fernandez, who worked at Caesars Palace for 18 years, died last Wednesday.

-Joe Bartels (@Joe_Bartels) June 27, 2020

Fernandez's daughter told ABC that she has "evidence" that her father tested negative for the virus before returning to work and began experiencing the first symptoms of the virus a few days later. The Las Vegas and Reno Culinary Workers Union is currently suing three other major casino restaurants in Las Vegas for unsafe working conditions.

Casinos are not the only places where the virus is spreading in Las Vegas or Nevada. Public health experts say there is a triple threat at work: widespread reopenings in conjunction with casinos, and a fairly apathetic public. All of this is driving the state's dramatic spread of the virus.

"We can't pin this spread on any one casino or even all of the casinos," Fermin Leguen, acting chief health officer for the Southern Nevada Health Department, told Business Insider. "Unfortunately, it's not that simple."

Cases have been rising ever since phase 2 began — opening schools, gyms, museums, and tattoo parlors

Las Vegas coronavirus cases have risen in tandem with the state's "phase 2" reopening, which began before the casinos reopened. Phase 2 saw the state's schools, gyms, museums, massage parlors, tattoo parlors, and many other in-person establishments reopen on May 29. Casinos followed six days later on June 4.

The coronavirus can take anywhere from a few days to more than two weeks to incubate in the body after infection.

"I think people just weren't following the rules," Brian Lavas, a public health professor and outbreak investigator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told Business Insider.

Many people across Nevada have returned to restaurants, shopping centers and salons to regain a sense of normalcy, and to indoor spaces like casinos to hang out with friends and family and get some fresh air.

In Nevada, in the heat of the desert, cooling rooms are often more refreshing than outside. The average temperature during the day during the day of Las Vegas in June rises to around 100 degrees of Hana (37. 7 degrees Celsius). But the indoor is a place where viruses are easy to spread among people, without being disturbed by fresh air or sun.

People were "refusing to wear masks" before Friday's mandate

Banking Dancer Alejandro Domingo and Sarah Lekuri participate in a fashion show to decorate the kic k-off mask campaign "Mask Up for Nevada" in front of the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign by Las Vegas Strip. Ethan Miller/ Getty Image

Prior to the mandatory on Friday last Friday, the ratio of both residents and tourists wearing masks was "very small", a former cocktail server, and used to work for seven years in various casinos in Las Vegas. Brittany Bronson told Business Insider.

"Most people have refused to wear masks," said Bronson.

She was also aware of a "strange political division" about wearing masks in her city.

"Half person wants to do a mask, but half people don't want to do it. I don't think people will start wearing masks for workers who have no choice.

Casinos had offered $20 to people to put on masks, but many didn't

On June 4, 2020, when the Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas Strip r e-opened, the guests who play black jacks on a table with only three seats in order to reduce social distance. 。 Ethan Miller/ Getty Image

Most gamblers were not interested, despite many casinos distributed masks to customers for free, and in some cases, they offered $ 20 just by attaching a mask.

"Perhaps you are choosing the most likely people to pay attention to that kind of thing." They are willing to travel in the pandemic. They come here on vacation. Therefore, they are not very interested in the fashion and do not seriously consider it. " < SPAN> In Nevada, in the heat of the desert, cooling rooms are often more refreshing than outside. The average temperature during the day during the day of Las Vegas in June rises to around 100 degrees of Hana (37. 7 degrees Celsius). But the indoor is a place where viruses are easy to spread among people, without being disturbed by fresh air or sun.

Masks are not a perfect protection — we need social distancing, too

"Most people have refused to wear masks," said Bronson.

She was also aware of a "strange political division" about wearing masks in her city.

"Half person wants to do a mask, but half people don't want to do it. I don't think people will start wearing masks for workers who have no choice.

"Perhaps you are choosing the most likely people to pay attention to that kind of thing." They are willing to travel in the pandemic. They come here on vacation. Therefore, they are not very interested in the fashion and do not seriously consider it. " In Nevada, in the heat of the desert, cooling rooms are often more refreshing than outside. The average temperature during the day during the day of Las Vegas in June rises to around 100 degrees of Hana (37. 7 degrees Celsius). But the indoor is a place where viruses are easy to spread among people, without being disturbed by fresh air or sun.

Nevada really needs to stay open to stay solvent

Prior to the mandatory on Friday last Friday, the ratio of both residents and tourists wearing masks was "very small", a former cocktail server, and used to work for seven years in various casinos in Las Vegas. Brittany Bronson told Business Insider.

"Most people have refused to wear masks," said Bronson.

"Half person wants to do a mask, but half people don't want to do it. I don't think people will start wearing masks for workers who have no choice.

Most gamblers were not interested, despite many casinos distributed masks to customers for free, and in some cases, they offered $ 20 just by attaching a mask.

Now, "casinos can say, 'I don't want to do it, but the governor says we have to,'" Loves said of masks.

Explaining the economic impact of COVID-19: Core industries and the Hispanic workforce

Drag performer Jim McCoy, who plays Auntie Norma Llaman, and Chippendales cast members Ricky Rogers and Ryan Worley take part in a fashion show in front of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on the Las Vegas Strip to kick off the "Mask Up for Nevada" campaign on June 25, 2020. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

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Masks alone probably won't eradicate the outbreak in Nevada entirely.

"I understand that after the reopening, many people feel like the virus is gone and everything is back to normal," Leguen said. "Unfortunately, that's not true. Still, the virus is here and the risk of contracting the disease is still high if we don't protect ourselves properly."

Under the new mask mandate, people will still be allowed to sit and eat without covering their faces.
"I think it will probably take two weeks before we start to see an effect.
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If widespread virus infections are not controlled soon, Las Vegas could again be shut down in a near-total way, which would cripple an economy that relies heavily on tourist dollars. Nearly 40% of Nevada's state budget comes from tourism.

Introduction

"Republicans and Democrats, right and left, business owners and workers, let's do what it takes to not only keep our economy going, but to ensure we can operate at full speed safely and successfully in the future," Governor Sisolak said last Wednesday when announcing the new mask requirement, which includes some exceptions such as for children and people with respiratory problems.

During the pandemic shutdowns in the spring, major casinos lost millions of dollars a day and the state recorded its worst unemployment rate on record — a finding that may not be entirely surprising, given that more than 25% of Nevada's workforce is tied to the gaming industry.

City and metro economies before Covid-19

-Dana Ellis (@702Sunshine) June 26, 2020

"No one here wants to see the casinos closed again," Bronson said.

She said she's already noticed more people wearing masks in convenience stores and other public places around town.

The economic impact of Covid-19

While a mask mandate won't completely eliminate the risk for Nevadans who work in the hospitality industry, Bronson hopes it will be a big help.

"My friends seem happy about the face mask mandate, but it doesn't make it any less worrying," she said. "They have to clear dishes, clean up dirty dishes, communicate and interact with customers.

Table 1: Metropolitan area unemployment, November 2019-20

Caesars Entertainment CEO Tony Rodio (left) and Wayne Newton (in tuxedos) watch guest Ben Lapane roll the dice during the reopening of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 4, 2020. Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Caesars Entertainment	While masks are not a perfect virus-catching solution, recent studies are adding to the growing body of evidence supporting the idea that masks can significantly reduce coronavirus transmission. One new disease model even suggests that 33, 000 lives could be saved if every American wore a mask in public over the next three months.	Advertisement	Bronson says that just being a little bit more protected from the spread of the virus "made me want to gamble a little bit."
"I'm really proud that the Governor did this," she said. "I think it was necessary given the realities of the Las Vegas economy and the fickleness of people coming in and out of Las Vegas."	3.6	This report was prepared for our partners at Brookings Mountain West and was originally published on their site on February 4, 2021.	7.9
While the United States is preparing for the revival of the COVID-19, policy proppons understand why a certain city or local community was more vulnerable to pandemic's economic impact than other cities and local communities. You need to. In this paper, we will consider the relationship between the core industries of the city, the economic sensitivity to pandemic, and the impact of the ganglance of the recession in the six metropolitan areas. As a result, it was found that the unemployment rate at the end of 2020, such as the tourist industry, Las Vegas, that depends on the movement of people, is much higher than in 2020 in the end of 2020. Furthermore, the largest hit area is Hispanic and Lati n-related communities, which reflects the population composition of workers working in larg e-affected industries and affected areas. Finally, we propose federation of federal policies in order to deal with regions and communities that were most affected by the COVID-19 recession.	2.7	7.7	5
table of contents	2.4	6.1	3.7
At the beginning	Covid-19 or more cities and large urban economy	Economic impact of COVID-19	Impact on policy
The recession of COVID-19 has been devastating to a specific industry that depends on the movement of human movement than in any recession, but the other industries that depend on the movement of information are relatively intact. Ta. Urban economy is concentrated in various industries: Las Vegas and Orlando are traveling and tourism, Seattle and San Francisco are technology, and Washington D. C. is government agency. In this way, the economic geography of the COVID-19 recession is affected by the effects of pandemic on the major industries of each city. When geography and races are overlapped, another underestimated effect of this recession, such as the increase in economic hardships faced with Hispanic or Latin communities.	2.8	5.8	3
In this paper, the economic impact of the COVID-19 recession is investigated using carefully selected metropolitan areas (often called the major urban areas in the metropolitan area) to clarify the problems and clarify the problems. Present. Economics in the industries that have a small amount of economy (Las Vegas, Orlando, Reno), which are concentrated in the industries affected by COVID-19, and the industries affected by COVID-19. There are three concentrated cities (Seattle, San Francisco, Washington D. C.). It can be seen that Hispanic or Latin residents are more concentrated in cities with industries that are more affected by COVID-19.	2.7	5.4	2.7
Cities and metropolitan areas often specialize in certain industries, creating agglomeration economies. Simply put, there are economic benefits to having companies that produce similar goods in close proximity. For example, the automotive industry is in Detroit, finance in New York, entertainment in Los Angeles, information technology in Seattle, and so on. The performance of core industries spreads to supporting industries, affecting the entire regional economy. For example, restaurants and retail stores do better if core industries are booming, and struggle if they are not. This section describes the major industries in each metropolitan area before COVID-19.	3	5.1	2.1

The Most COVID-19-vulnerable Industry: Leisure and Hospitality

Before COVID-19, Orlando was the largest tourism industry in the United States, producing $26 billion annually, while Las Vegas was second with over $19 billion. 1 However, Las Vegas' total GDP is smaller than Orlando's, so tourism's impact is relatively large, with hospitality and leisure employing more than a quarter of Las Vegas' workers in 2019. 2 Orlando and Reno have similar concentrations of hospitality and leisure jobs, but their share of the economy is much smaller than Las Vegas. Figure 2 shows that in 2019, roughly one in five (21%) Orlando workers were directly employed in hospitality and leisure, as were 16% (roughly one in seven) of Reno workers. 3 In these cities, many secondary industries, such as the professional and business sectors, are driven by major economic engines.

Seattle and San Francisco, on the other hand, are technology-focused, an industry that appears to have benefited from COVID-19. Seattle is known as the birthplace of Microsoft and is also home to Amazon. San Francisco is the modern-day home of giant tech conglomerates like Salesforce and Adobe, with many of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies located nearby. Seattle and San Francisco’s jobs are concentrated in the largest occupational group, computer and mathematical occupations, at 2. 36 and 2. 14 times the national average, respectively, more than twice as high. 4 In contrast, Orlando has slightly lower employment rates in computer and mathematical occupations than the national average, but this figure plummets in Las Vegas (50%) and Reno (54%). 5 Put another way, San Francisco and Seattle have more than four times as many computer and mathematical employees as Las Vegas and Reno, proportional to the total number of workers in each city.

Going beyond the technology vs. tourism dichotomy, add in Washington DC, the nation’s capital and a government hotspot. D. C. has about three times the national average number of legal services workers per capita (2. 76). Governance also entails demands for research (military and civilian). As a result, D. C. has more employees in computer and mathematics fields than Seattle and San Francisco (2. 46 times the national average), and nearly five times as many as Las Vegas and Reno as a share of the workforce in each city. 6

The COVID-19 caused catastrophic hits to some industries, including leisure and hospitality, but had little effect on other industries. Las Vegas's unemployment rate rose by about 8 % from November 2019 to November 2020, increasing by about 5 % from the whole country. Las Vegas and Orlando are one of the most unemployed urban areas in the United States. Las Vegas's unemployment rate was more than 5 points higher than the United States as of November 2020, and was the fourth in all metropolitan areas. Seven Las Vegas and Orlando have also reached the top 10%of the total urbanized employment rate from November 2019 to November 2020 (the latest data available at the metropolitan area level 8). On the other hand, even if the technical and governmen t-related metropolitan areas start at an unemployment rate (or slightly higher than Orlando) as Orlando, the unemployment rate tends to be lower than the national average.

In this section, Coronavirus has the impact on the leisure and customer service business (the largest industries of Las Vegas, Reno, Orlando, and the core industry), and the COVID-19 is strong (Seattle and San Francisco in San Francisco. Consider the impact on the technology industry, the government agencies of Washington, D. C., etc.) and the economic effects on the hiss panic or Latin population of each city.

Metropolitan area

COVID-19-Resilient Industries: Information and Government

Ratio (November 19)

Compared to the previous year (November 20)

Yea r-o n-year

Table 2: 12-month percent change in employment by industry, November 2019-20

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise (Nevada)	11. 5	Orlando, Florida-Ximmy-Sunford	San Francisco-Auckland-Hayward (California)	US	3. 3	6. 4
3. 1	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria (DC-VA-MD-WV)	Reno (Nevada	Seattle-Tacoma-Bell View (Washington	Cities with key industries negatively affected by the COVID-19 recession will experience broader spillover effects (e. g., casino workers who lose their jobs in Las Vegas will be less likely to buy new clothes). Overall, the devastation of a core industry means the decline of other industries nearby, as was the case with manufacturing in the Rust Belt in the late 20th century. As a result, metropolitan areas concentrated in hard-hit industries are more likely to experience negative spillover effects (e. g., lower tax revenues, reduced spending) throughout the economy. As we will discuss, metropolitan areas concentrated in industries vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19 tend to have larger Hispanic or Latino populations. Thus, the economic geography of the pandemic will widen existing disparities and exacerbate the racial wealth gap for Hispanic or Latino families. This is especially concerning given that the federal government's initial COVID-19 relief package was implemented without understanding the economic and geographic realities of this recession and in a way that reduced benefits for many Hispanic or Latino families. 9	Seattle-Tacoma-Bell View (Washington	Every metropolitan area has hotels, but few cities make their economies off of hotels. Destination cities have economies that benefit from both personal travel and corporate meetings, but COVID-19 has devastated both as people stopped traveling altogether. The $100 billion annual U. S. meetings industry, which fills up weekday hotels for meetings in cities that are hotspots for vacationers on weekends, has come to a near standstill. 11
In November 2019, 88% of hotel and motel rooms in Las Vegas were filled; in November 2020, that figure was just 47%. 12 Similarly, passengers passing through Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport in November 2020 were down 59% year over year, and tourists visiting the city were down 52%. Orlando suffered a similar fate, with flights at Orlando's airport down 44% year over year in October 2020. 13	Comparing the urban area hospitality before the pandemic, the employment concentration of the leisure, and the unemployment rate change in order to have a wider range of effects that COVID-19 has given to the economy such as Las Vegas and Orlando. Figure 3 shows the ratio of no n-agricultural department workers engaged in leisure and customer service in the urban area of 2019, changes in total loss ratio from November 2019 to November 2020, and each indicator. It indicates the percentage of Hispanic or Latin in areas where data is located in metropolitan areas. 14	Cities that depend on hospitality and leisure suggest that the overall unemployment rate has high overall unemployment, and the performance of the core industries has influenced the performance of the economy as a whole. For example, Las Vegas focused on hospitalit y-related employment, and the unemployment rate was the second largest (after the Atlantic City). Orlando is also particularly many customer service workers, and stands out due to the significant increase in overall unemployment. The unemployment rate in November 2020 is ranked in the top 50 cities in both cities. In contrast, Seattle and Washington, D. C., are below average, both hospitality, leisure concentration, and unemployment rate changes, and the concentration of industries that support COVID-19 will reduce the overall employment reduction. It shows again whether it is.	Figure 3 shows the size of the Hispanic or Latin population in the metropolitan area. The larger the circle, the higher the percentage of Hispanic or Latin population in the population of the metropolitan area. Cities that depend on Tourism, such as Las Vegas and Orlando, tend to have a large hispanic or Latin population, but in cities with average unemployment rate, such as Seattle and Washington D. C., average is Hiss Panic or Latin. The population tends to be small. In order to show a widespread impact on the < SPAN> COVID-19 on the economy such as Las Vegas and Orlando, compare the hospitality in the metropolitan area before the pandemic, the employment concentration of leisure, and the change in unemployment rate. Figure 3 shows the ratio of no n-agricultural department workers engaged in leisure and customer service in the urban area of 2019, changes in total loss ratio from November 2019 to November 2020, and each indicator. It indicates the percentage of Hispanic or Latin in areas where data is located in metropolitan areas. 14	Cities that depend on hospitality and leisure suggest that the overall unemployment rate has high overall unemployment, and the performance of the core industries has influenced the performance of the economy as a whole. For example, Las Vegas focused on hospitalit y-related employment, and the unemployment rate was the second largest (after the Atlantic City). Orlando is also particularly many customer service workers, and stands out due to the significant increase in overall unemployment. The unemployment rate in November 2020 is ranked in the top 50 cities in both cities. In contrast, Seattle and Washington, D. C., are below average, both hospitality, leisure concentration, and unemployment rate changes, and the concentration of industries that support COVID-19 will reduce the overall employment reduction. It shows again whether it is.	Figure 3 shows the size of the Hispanic or Latin population in the metropolitan area. The larger the circle, the higher the percentage of Hispanic or Latin population in the population of the metropolitan area. Cities that depend on Tourism, such as Las Vegas and Orlando, tend to have a large hispanic or Latin population, but in cities with average unemployment rate, such as Seattle and Washington D. C., average is Hiss Panic or Latin. The population tends to be small. Comparing the urban area hospitality before the pandemic, the employment concentration of the leisure, and the unemployment rate change in order to have a wider range of effects that COVID-19 has given to the economy such as Las Vegas and Orlando. Figure 3 shows the ratio of no n-agricultural department workers engaged in leisure and customer service in the urban area of 2019, changes in total loss ratio from November 2019 to November 2020, and each indicator. It indicates the percentage of Hispanic or Latin in areas where data is located in metropolitan areas. 14	Cities that depend on hospitality and leisure suggest that the overall unemployment rate has high overall unemployment, and the performance of the core industries has influenced the performance of the economy as a whole. For example, Las Vegas focused on hospitalit y-related employment, and the unemployment rate was the second largest (after the Atlantic City). Orlando is also particularly many customer service workers, and stands out due to the significant increase in overall unemployment. The unemployment rate in November 2020 is ranked in the top 50 cities in both cities. In contrast, Seattle and Washington, D. C., are below average, both hospitality, leisure concentration, and unemployment rate changes, and the concentration of industries that support COVID-19 will reduce the overall employment reduction. It shows again whether it is.
Figure 3 shows the size of the Hispanic or Latin population in the metropolitan area. The larger the circle, the higher the percentage of Hispanic or Latin population in the population of the metropolitan area. Cities that depend on Tourism, such as Las Vegas and Orlando, tend to have a large hispanic or Latin population, but in cities with average unemployment rate, such as Seattle and Washington D. C., average is Hiss Panic or Latin. The population tends to be small.	Travel and hospitality employment declines were similar across the cities analyzed. Las Vegas’ leisure and hospitality industry employment declined 21. 4 percentage points since November 2019, while Orlando, DC, San Francisco, and Seattle’s leisure and hospitality industries all declined by more than 30%. 15 Reno was the only city in the sample to experience a smaller decline in unemployment (16%) than Las Vegas (21%) in this sector. 16 In other words, there was nothing special about working in the hospitality industry in Las Vegas, Orlando, and Reno compared to Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, except for some of the employment. If anything, each city’s core industries have maintained more employment. However, the employment impact in non-core industries appears to be compounded or mitigated by the performance of core industries. More than a quarter of Las Vegas’ workers are in the hard-hit leisure and hospitality industry, and the information, finance, and professional business services industries also fared the worst among the cities in our comparison. Not surprisingly, Las Vegas also has the highest overall unemployment rate among this group. In contrast, nearly a quarter of employment in Washington, D. C., is in government, and the sector performed better in November 2020 than it did in 2019.	0	COVID-19 has hit industries that rely on in-person contact hard, but distance restrictions have led to a surge in the use of technology for remote work and commerce. Companies of all types have increased their investments in technology, and in one McKinsey survey, executives said that "when asked how the crisis has affected various initiatives, [executives] have seen an increase in funding for digital initiatives, more than anything else, more than an increase in costs, more than an increase in the number of people in technology roles, or more than an increase in the number of customers."17 The same survey also found that the share of North American consumers interacting digitally has surged as a result of the crisis, increasing by more than 58%.	Relative to other industries, IT and government are doing well. From February to April 2020, sales in nonstore retail (i. e., online shopping) increased by 15%. Amazon added 400, 000 jobs this year in response to the pandemic, nearly doubling its workforce. 18 These jobs are spread across the United States, but Amazon’s headquarters will gain disproportionately economically from the company’s growth. Facebook also announced plans to hire an additional 10, 000 employees in April 2020. 19 Meanwhile, the 12-month change in unemployment rate in the information and government industries is less than half that of leisure and hospitality. 20 As Table 2 shows, the unemployment rate in the information technology industry is roughly the same as or slightly lower than the overall unemployment rate in technology hub cities like Seattle and San Francisco, Washington DC, Orlando, and Reno. Interestingly, only Las Vegas and D. C. have job losses in the information industry that exceed the overall job losses. This is likely a result of jobs in the hospitality and leisure and information industries, which are part of government, being classified differently, but a similar impact is expected in Orlando and Reno.	By Industry	Las Vegas
Reno	1.1	1.8	Orlando	Washington D. C.	1.3	1.6
San Francisco	Seattle	0.6	Nonfarm Total	-10. 1	-5. 2	1.4
-9. 3	-6. 1	-9. 3	-6. 7	Leisure & Hospitality	-21. 4	-15. 9
-30. 5	-38. 1	-29. 7	-30. 2	2.2	Information	-17. 2

-5. 4

-6. 9

-9. 1

The Impact on Hispanic or Latino Workers

-2. 1

Financial Activities

-1. 5

-3. 7

Policy implications

Professional & Business Services

-13. 8

-3. 1

-4. 7

Table 3: Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) spending, by industry 34

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise (Nevada)	Other Services	-12. 9	-9. 4
-7. 2	-1. 7	-17. 8	-12. 8
Government	1.1	-4. 5	3.0
Figure 3 shows the size of the Hispanic or Latin population in the metropolitan area. The larger the circle, the higher the percentage of Hispanic or Latin population in the population of the metropolitan area. Cities that depend on Tourism, such as Las Vegas and Orlando, tend to have a large hispanic or Latin population, but in cities with average unemployment rate, such as Seattle and Washington D. C., average is Hiss Panic or Latin. The population tends to be small.	1.2	6.7	1.8
-7. 4	2.5	-9. 7	-6. 4
The acceleration of the long-term trend toward greater technology use benefits technology companies and, ultimately, the communities in which they are located. As Amazon and Facebook grow, both in terms of jobs and stock prices (see Amazon and Facebook stock prices), wealth is created disproportionately in the cities where they are headquartered. Just as the growth of the auto industry drove the rise of Detroit in the 20th century, the growth of technology has driven the rise of Seattle and San Francisco in the 21st century. COVID-19 is a net loss for society as a whole, but a relative winner for technology companies and, correspondingly, for their major cities.	4.7	Similarly, COVID-19 gave the Federal Government's trials, and Washington responded with funds and new employment. Federal government employment increased by more than 50, 000 from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020, and D. C. urban government employment increased by more than 2 %. 21 The old washington's old saying, "The safest job is the federal government's job," applies, and the safe employment is incredibly valuable during the COVID-19 epidemic. Federal government employment has been strong, but not the state and local governments. State and local governments in the United States have lost more than 1. 1 million employment during the same period, and have supplemented the federal government's increase in employment. 22 Therefore, the government may not have the same government boom as Washington D. C.	Perhaps in the long term, the structural changes that enable the expansion of remote work that began with COVID-19 will weaken the connection between cities and their main industries. If so, the IT field, which has a higher ratio of remote work, will be stronger than the service industry such as hospitality, leisure, and gaming. Simply put, Las Vegas and Orlando's amenities cannot be easily replaced by those sitting in front of a computer in a distance of 1, 000 miles, such as technology and government work.
Hispanic or Latin workers are particularly affected by the COVID-19 recession, as shown in previous research. In December 2020, Hispanic or Latin unemployment rate was 9. 3 %, more than three points higher than whites. When the 23 COVID-19 occurred, Hispanic or Latin unemployment rates rose sharply and exceeded the black unemployment rate. Even at the end of 2020, the gap between Hispanic or Latin workers and white workers was larger than in March, when COVID-19 unemployed.	6.3	4.9	1.6
In urban areas where the unemployment rate exceeds the average at the end of 2020, Hispanic or Latin system is 31%, while the hispanic or Latin system is 10. 9%in metropolitan areas where the unemployment rate is lower than the average. Therefore, it is highly likely that the geographical ripple effect of industrial performance has expanded the germ interaction between hiss bread or Latin and white unemployment rates. < SPAN> Similarly, the Covid-19 gave a trial to the federal government, and Washington responded with funds and new employment. Federal government employment increased by more than 50, 000 from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020, and D. C. urban government employment increased by more than 2 %. 21 The old washington's old saying, "The safest job is the federal government's job," applies, and the safe employment is incredibly valuable during the COVID-19 epidemic. Federal government employment has been strong, but not the state and local governments. State and local governments in the United States have lost more than 1. 1 million employment during the same period, and have supplemented the federal government's increase in employment. 22 Therefore, the government may not have the same government boom as Washington D. C.	6.4	Perhaps in the long term, the structural changes that enable the expansion of remote work that began with COVID-19 will weaken the connection between cities and their main industries. If so, the IT field, which has a higher ratio of remote work, will be stronger than the service industry such as hospitality, leisure, and gaming. Simply put, the amenities provided by Las Vegas and Orlando cannot be easily replaced by those sitting in front of a computer in a distance of 1, 000 miles, such as technology and government work.	Hispanic or Latin workers are particularly affected by the COVID-19 recession, as shown in previous research. In December 2020, Hispanic or Latin unemployment rate was 9. 3 %, more than three points higher than whites. When the 23 COVID-19 occurred, Hispanic or Latin unemployment rates rose sharply and exceeded the black unemployment rate. Even at the end of 2020, the gap between Hispanic or Latin workers and white workers was larger than in March, when COVID-19 unemployed.
In urban areas where the unemployment rate exceeds the average at the end of 2020, Hispanic or Latin system is 31%, while the hispanic or Latin system is 10. 9%in metropolitan areas where the unemployment rate is lower than the average. Therefore, it is highly likely that the geographical ripple effect of industrial performance has expanded the germ interaction between hiss bread or Latin and white unemployment rates. Similarly, the COVID-19 gave a trial to the federal government, and Washington responded with funds and new employment. Federal government employment increased by more than 50, 000 from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020, and D. C. urban government employment increased by more than 2 %. 21 The old washington's old saying, "The safest job is the federal government's job," applies, and the safe employment is incredibly valuable during the COVID-19 epidemic. Federal government employment has been strong, but not the state and local governments. State and local governments in the United States have lost more than 1. 1 million employment during the same period, and have supplemented the federal government's increase in employment. 22 Therefore, the government may not have the same government boom as Washington D. C.	Perhaps in the long term, the structural changes that enable the expansion of remote work that began with COVID-19 will weaken the connection between cities and their main industries. If so, the IT field, which has a higher ratio of remote work, will be stronger than the service industry such as hospitality, leisure, and gaming. Simply put, Las Vegas and Orlando's amenities cannot be easily replaced by those sitting in front of a computer in a distance of 1, 000 miles, such as technology and government work.	Hispanic or Latin workers are particularly affected by the COVID-19 recession, as shown in previous research. In December 2020, Hispanic or Latin unemployment rate was 9. 3 %, more than three points higher than whites. When the 23 COVID-19 occurred, Hispanic or Latin unemployment rates rose sharply and exceeded the black unemployment rate. Even at the end of 2020, the gap between Hispanic or Latin workers and white workers was larger than in March, when COVID-19 unemployed.	8.1

In urban areas where the unemployment rate exceeds the average at the end of 2020, Hispanic or Latin system is 31%, while the hispanic or Latin system is 10. 9%in metropolitan areas where the unemployment rate is lower than the average. Therefore, it is highly likely that the geographical ripple effect of industrial performance has expanded the germ interaction between hiss bread or Latin and white unemployment rates.

Further exacerbating the geographic impact are disparities in industrial concentration among racial and ethnic groups. Before COVID-19, nearly a quarter of the hospitality workforce was Hispanic or Latino. COVID-19 has devastated tourism, pushing the hospitality and leisure industry to the highest unemployment rate of any major industry. 24 Figure 5 shows employment changes in specific industries from November 2019 to November 2020 and the percentage of Hispanic or Latino workers in each industry in 2019.

Employees often receive health care benefits from their employers, so losing a job means losing affordable health care. Such effects further exacerbate existing racial inequities in access to health care, as Hispanic or Latino people are disproportionately likely to contract COVID-19. The coronavirus infection rate per 1, 000 residents in Las Vegas is much higher among Hispanic or Latino residents than among whites. This is why, as of mid-January 2021, data show that 1 in 12 Hispanic or Latino Las Vegas residents have been infected with COVID-19, compared with only 1 in 20 white residents. 25 On an age-adjusted basis, the death rate for Hispanic residents in Nevada is about three times higher than for white residents. 26

Federal aid has so far been suboptimal in terms of allocating economic assistance to those who need it most. More than half of coronavirus aid went directly to businesses, many of which did not have to keep employees employed or certify that they were negatively affected by the pandemic. 27 In contrast, only about one-fifth went directly to workers and families, and the aid that was provided was not always targeted. For example, the first direct payments (stimulus checks) excluded children if one parent was an illegal immigrant. 28 Direct stimulus payments were also slow to arrive, leaving millions of American families waiting months to receive funds.
In the purpose of this analysis, the most impressive system was additional unemployment insurance. By tracking the unemployment rate and defining unemployed people more widespread, the strengthening of unemployment benefits should have been discarded to people engaged in more affected industries, such as leisure and customer service. Similarly, Hispanic and Latin workers are expected to be charged for unbalanced unemployment benefits, as they face an unbalanced unemployment rate. Here is one serious potential problem. Many states continue to struggle to operate new unemployment insurance benefits.
There are several factors, such as the difficulty of each state to modernize the system in order to respond to the new federal rules, and the rapid demand has increased. For example, Florida had an old system, and it was difficult for newly qualified workers to obtain qualifications. It is well known that Nevada has difficulty to expand his qualifications and to process recorded unemployment insurance, and has developed into a group lawsuit against the State Employment Bureau. 30 claim processing and delay in payment are particularly harmful to those who have less savings and use shor t-term loans at reasonable expenses, and are imposed on Hispanic and Latin Nevada people. Despite the high unemployment rate of Hispanic or Latin workers, the percentage of hiss or latin workers who applied for unemployment allowance is almost the same as the working population (see Fig. 4). 。 31
The much-touted Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) offered forgivable loans (effectively grants) to affected businesses and workers, but saved far fewer jobs than the lofty projections of 30 million. Researchers estimate that only 2. 3 million jobs were saved in the first two months of the program, amounting to $286, 000 per person. 32 The PPP grants distributed appear to have been mismatched with the unemployment rates of the sector. According to a Washington Post analysis, 32% of jobs lost were in the lodging, restaurant, and bar industry (a central component of hospitality and leisure), but this industry received only 8% of the PPP grant money. Similarly, the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry experienced job losses three times higher than the PPP grant money received. In response, financial and insurance companies, which prospered relatively throughout the pandemic, received more than $8 billion in PPP funds. Put another way, finance and insurance received more than $350, 000 in PPP funds per job lost from February to April, compared with about $8, 000 for arts, entertainment, and recreation, and $7, 800 for accommodation and food services. 33

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Last modified: 27.08.2024

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