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A renewal for Henderson's park tax is scheduled for June. The Indy takes a deeper look at why the question is on the primary ballot rather than the general elec
The pay gap鈥攐r the difference in earnings between men and women鈥攑ersists throughout the U.S., with full-time working women earning just 81 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2024. A recent business.com analysis of U.S. Census data shows Nevada鈥檚 full-time workforce faring better than all but Vermont, but Henderson remains a major outlier. The city had the 15th largest gap in the study, with an average female resident earning $19,645 less than her male counterpart. That鈥檚 about 2.5 times greater than Las Vegas鈥 $8,172 and Nevada鈥檚 $7,805, and consistent with a 2024 性视界传媒 Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West study ranking it 21st. Let鈥檚 take a closer look at these trends in honor of Equal Pay Day on March 26.
Today, health care is the fastest-growing sector in the regional economy having added more than 42,000 jobs since 2016. Yet, despite this growth we only have 70 percent of our expected health care jobs. Consequently, we continue to have poor health and social outcomes and export tens of millions of our health care dollars to out-of-state providers annually.
Southern Nevada has made big strides when it comes to health care in the region, adding a medical school at 性视界传媒 and hosting two private schools for doctors. But it still has a long way to go, and a lot of money required to get there.
The Lincy Institute at 性视界传媒 reports that Nevada is still missing about 30 percent of the healthcare jobs it should have. A lack of residency spots is pushing many newly trained doctors out of the state.
Using data in the Mental Health America report, Brookings Mountain West at 性视界传媒 breaks out some of the findings with a more regional emphasis in its report on the 鈥State of Mental Health in the Mountain West.鈥 The Brookings analysis included metrics for major depressive episodes, mental illness, substance use disorders, suicidal idiation, and unmet treatment for both adult and youth population.
