Each Nevada taxpayer’s financial burden equals $4,200. Read report here: 2009 Nevada Financial State of the State Share and Enjoy:
(Nevada News Bureau) Nevada has the 18th lowest taxpayer burden to cover unfunded public employee pension and health care costs among the states, but policy makers are still failing to adequately address the shortfall, a national organization reported in a new comprehensive analysis. Nevada’s burden totals nearly $3.6 billion in liabilities for these benefits, which works [...]
(Las Vegas Review-Journal) For months Nevada politicians have said “everything is on the table” when it comes to solving the state’s budget crisis. On Saturday it was obvious Nevada citizens took the politicians at their word. More than 600 residents crammed into the Sawyer Building near downtown Las Vegas to make demands or suggestions and [...]
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says hundreds of layoffs are likely, possibly more, as the state grapples with a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall. Gibbons on Tuesday met with a handful of state schools superintendents, who were told to expect around 10 percent budget cuts for the rest of the biennium [...]
Nevada Controller’s website: www.controller.nv.gov Nevada’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports can be found at: http://controller.nv.gov/CAFR_Download_Page.htm Nevada is required to pass a “balanced budget”. Section 353.205 of the State law requires the budget document to start with a general summary of the proposed budget setting forth the “aggregate figures of that budget to show the balanced relations [...]
