LATEST NEWS

The Guinn Center team has been hard at work, writing briefs on timely topics like federal funding use in Nevada, the proposed split of the Department of Health and Human Services, the state’s persistent health workforce shortages, and AI trends in Higher Education—but it doesn’t stop there.

Nevada continues to face an affordable housing crisis. There is a shortage of available homes for those at lower income levels. And the “missing middle” of Nevadans are also struggling to purchase attainable homes and create generational wealth. Our panel takes a deeper look into solutions and legislation that could make a difference.

The following excerpt is from an article originally published in the The Nevada Independent, Report shows Nevada’s heavy reliance on federal funds — and susceptibility to cuts.

The following excerpt is from an article originally published in the The Nevada Independent, Nevada has an affordable housing crisis. A new report shows ways to fix it.

As the year comes to a close, we want to thank you for your continued support of the Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities.

Dr. Anna Colquitt, Director of Education Policy and Principal Investigator of the Early Childhood Systems report, answered viewer comments and questions from our ECS webinar on October 16, 2024.

Dr. Anna Colquitt, Director of Education Policy, Guinn Center, sits down with Nevada Newsmakers about per pupil spending compared to other states.

The Guinn Center hosted a "First Look" webinar on its recently published report on Nevada's Pupil-Centered Funding Plan.

The Guinn Center's Executive Director, Jill Tolles, moderated a panel of cybersecurity experts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to facilitate a critical and timely discussion on election cybersecurity. The panel was held on October 4, 2024, on the UNLV campus.

The Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities is publishing several voter education policy briefs ahead of and during the 2024 election season to address common questions about voter registration processes, election security, and election law.

The Guinn Center hosted a "First Look" webinar on its recently published report on Nevada's early childhood systems (ECS).

We’re often asked how we choose the topics we study. The answer is two-fold. About half of our research comes in the form of specific government requests. The other half is inspired by you.

Help the Guinn Center determine its 2025 research priorities by taking our annual survey.

The work we are doing is crucial to better outcomes for our children, businesses, and future in Nevada — and it’s not finished.

Director of Education Policy Dr. Anna Colquitt joined Assistant Director Kristine Caliger to discuss the research team’s progress on the Guinn Center's study on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) systems, slated for release in September 2024.

An Interview with Meredith Levine, Director of Economic and Fiscal Policy

This report summarizes key demographic indicators for youth in Nevada. The report also presents data for various outcomes among youth in the areas of employment, health, substance abuse, and educational attainment.

Las Vegas is now the fastest-growing city in the United States. Recently, we interviewed more than 50 community members and leaders in Southern Nevada to understand better their experience with extreme heat and how COVID-19 exacerbated their existing vulnerabilities to heat. Most reported that COVID-19 had exacerbated existing heat-related challenges and presented new ones in one of four decision spaces (e.g., public, private, transit, and workplace).

Policymakers in Nevada and elsewhere are laser-focused on ways to support and invest in our workforce to spur the pandemic-ravaged economy to return to its full potential. This exercise involves identifying people who are missing and thinking about ways to support them and reimagine a much more inclusive workplace. Women have been the subject of many of these discussions. But as we undertake this exercise, who else is missing? What else can we do?

In mid-August, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first tranche of data collected from the 2020 Census. There are a few interesting trends, one of which could have possible implications for decision-makers and policy leaders in Nevada. Census data revealed that Nevada’s population grew by 15 percent in the past decade.

Headlines continue to call attention to a shortage of workers in the leisure and hospitality sector here and around the country. Workers are supposedly staying at home and avoiding work given federal unemployment insurance benefits — or so the story goes. But the commentaries fail to fully acknowledge that the “weird” labor dynamics we are observing may be the result of a paradigm shift fueled by workers who are reimagining work in a post-COVID economy.