Nevada’s Data Center Fight, the Childcare Crisis & WTF Is Happening in Iran

Okay, so the local lowdown.

Let's dive right in.

So, Annette, you mentioned we would continue talking about child care.

So, apparently, again, we are in a terrible list because the percentage of Nevada children in child care deserts outpace the region.

So we are really good at being really bad.

Number one.

That's what I think.

Number one.

Yeah.

So more than 45...

So this article's in the Nevada Current.

It's written by Michael Lyle.

More than 45,000 young women or...

Young children in Nevada's fourth congressional district, so that's Stephen Horsford's congressional district, live in a child care desert, the highest rate among all the congressional districts in five Mountain West states, according to a recent report from UNLV.

So this was put together by the Brookings Mountain West and Lindsay Institute at UNLV's analysis, which was published September 11th and comes from the 2024 findings from Center for American Progress.

America's child care crisis leaves many families without access to licensed care.

And that report was released this summer.

So it's using state data.

to really kind of compile what a child care desert is, where they exist.

About 46% of children nationally live in child care deserts.

So this is a huge issue for families, a huge issue for Nevada families, something that I work on with my MomsRising client.

And it's a really, really big problem for Nevada families who, especially working people, people who need to you know, go to work.

Now they're having to work two and three jobs just to afford it, or they just don't have access at all because there's no facilities available.

Governor Lombardo- Had an opportunity last session to fix this with AB 185, which was Nathalie Anderson's bill.

He vetoed that bill.

Okay, so the local lowdown.

Let's dive right in.

So, Annette, you mentioned we would continue talking about child care.

So, apparently, again, we are in a terrible list because the percentage of Nevada children in child care deserts outpace the region.

So we are really good at being really bad.

Number one.

That's what I think.

Number one.

Yeah.

So more than 45...

So this article's in the Nevada Current.

It's written by Michael Lyle.

More than 45,000 young women or...

Young children in Nevada's fourth congressional district, so that's Stephen Horsford's congressional district, live in a child care desert, the highest rate among all the congressional districts in five Mountain West states, according to a recent report from UNLV.

So this was put together by the Brookings Mountain West and Lindsay Institute at UNLV's analysis, which was published September 11th and comes from the 2024 findings from Center for American Progress.

America's child care crisis leaves many families without access to licensed care.

And that report was released this summer.

So it's using state data.

to really kind of compile what a child care desert is, where they exist.

About 46% of children nationally live in child care deserts.

So this is a huge issue for families, a huge issue for Nevada families, something that I work on with my MomsRising client.

And it's a really, really big problem for Nevada families who, especially working people, people who need to you know, go to work.

Now they're having to work two and three jobs just to afford it, or they just don't have access at all because there's no facilities available.

Governor Lombardo- Had an opportunity last session to fix this with AB 185, which was Nathalie Anderson's bill.

He vetoed that bill.