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UNLV’s Take Your Child to Work Day gives kids a chance to see what their parents do while exploring a fun range of educational and career-related activities.
The students and faculty of UNLV are springing into headlines around the country.

UNLV's School of Public Policy and Leadership offers courses in data visualization that are helping to create a workforce pipeline.
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From the desert to the mountains to the market, Honors College student Allister Dias explores Morocco as part of Lee Business School's Global Entrepreneurship Experience.

The former student body president and longtime donor passes away, 60 years after UNLV's first commencement.
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In Southern Nevada, business confidence “plunged” this quarter to its lowest level in 16 years, according to UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research. All told, local business leaders’ view of U.S. economic conditions “nosedived,” and their view of conditions in Nevada “also sank,” the center reported.

The "No Tax on Tips" Act, which aims to eliminate federal taxes on tips, passed the Senate on Monday, drawing significant attention in Las Vegas, where 17% of the workforce relies on tips, according to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Center for Business and Economic Research.
Since 2020, Nevada’s unemployment rate has been significantly higher than the national average, even as tourism has recovered

Nevada’s Economic Forum adjusted the tax revenue forecast down $191 million for the upcoming biennium, representing a further dimming of& an already dreary outlook of how the economy will fare under the Trump administration.

The economic impact of the Vegas sports boom has been a fast-moving phenomenon, so specific and intriguing that the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER)and Sports Innovation Institute have created a tracking tool, the Southern Nevada Sports Economy Data Dashboard, to serve as an evolving research document.

After weeks of tariff changes, and the resulting market dips, Americans are terrified of looking at their 401ks, prices are fluctuating for just about everything and consumer confidence hasn't been this low since the pandemic.
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