How Bad Is It?
Fifty evictions a day, averaging five suicides a week in Pahrump, Nevada
"According to resident and town activist Margery Hansen, Nye is the most poverty stricken county in the country.
“Nevada is number eight in the country for poverty and our unemployment recorded rate is 14 percent, but the actual rate is 25 percent,” she said.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the most recent unemployment figure for Nye County was 16.7 percent in June.
Hansen also said there are 50 delivered eviction notices in Pahrump each day.
“Yes, we need jobs here. However, we are averaging five suicides a week. I don’t care about corporations — I care about the people we save.”
About six years ago my wife and I went to Death Valley. We decided to take a drive over the pass into Pahrump for supplies. We're pretty used to the area, having been through there several times before, but we were struck by a new development southwest of the town. Mile after mile in the valley streets were marked and a lot of them were paved. Just the streets were there but no structures. It was obviously going to be a huge expansion of housing communities reflecting what in hindsight was misplaced optimism. We'd seen this all over the west in the past decade but Pahrump was the most expansive and I have to assume the whole shebang has been dropped by now, and those miles of streets will slowly return to gopher holes and cactus. Out of the way desert communities that relied heavily on tourst money, with no manufacturing and only service jobs, are going to literally become decaying ghost towns.
"Enron Accounting" Has Bankrupted America: U.S. Deficit Really $202 Trillion
"According to resident and town activist Margery Hansen, Nye is the most poverty stricken county in the country.
“Nevada is number eight in the country for poverty and our unemployment recorded rate is 14 percent, but the actual rate is 25 percent,” she said.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the most recent unemployment figure for Nye County was 16.7 percent in June.
Hansen also said there are 50 delivered eviction notices in Pahrump each day.
“Yes, we need jobs here. However, we are averaging five suicides a week. I don’t care about corporations — I care about the people we save.”
About six years ago my wife and I went to Death Valley. We decided to take a drive over the pass into Pahrump for supplies. We're pretty used to the area, having been through there several times before, but we were struck by a new development southwest of the town. Mile after mile in the valley streets were marked and a lot of them were paved. Just the streets were there but no structures. It was obviously going to be a huge expansion of housing communities reflecting what in hindsight was misplaced optimism. We'd seen this all over the west in the past decade but Pahrump was the most expansive and I have to assume the whole shebang has been dropped by now, and those miles of streets will slowly return to gopher holes and cactus. Out of the way desert communities that relied heavily on tourst money, with no manufacturing and only service jobs, are going to literally become decaying ghost towns.
"Enron Accounting" Has Bankrupted America: U.S. Deficit Really $202 Trillion
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