On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) commented on Nevada having the highest unemployment rate of any state by saying that they got the worst of the economic impact of the pandemic but “the jobs are coming. We’ve made these investments. But we have more to do.”
Host Andrea Mitchell asked, “So, Senator, I was going to ask you about the drag that the economic issues are, potentially, for you, which is ironic, because The Wall Street Journal’s big headline today is that the economy — we are the best economy in the world with the latest data. Yet, the unemployment in Nevada is the highest in the country. And in Las Vegas, in particular, it’s something like 5.9%, at least in September. So, it’s way higher than the national average. That’s a problem, right?”
Rosen answered, “Well, I can tell you that we…
