LAS VEGAS -- The unemployment rate continues to soar to nearly double the rate seen this time last year.

For months, thousands of Las Vegans have been waiting to hear if they’ll be hired at the CityCenter resort complex.

They’ll find out starting next week when MGM Mirage begins making job offers.

As for the thousands of construction workers who have spent three years building the complex, they’ll walk off the site to an uncertain future.

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“We are looking closely at what type of effect that completion will have on the construction industry,” said Mae Worthey, representative for the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

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Construction and tourism are two industries hit hardest in Nevada’s unemployment crisis, with thousands laid off due to shut downs at resort projects including Echelon and Fontainebleau.

Worthey estimated more than a quartr of the workforce – 31,000 construction jobs – have been lost in the last year.

Since this time last year, 31,000 construction jobs have been lost -- more than a quarter of the workforce.

“That’s just an amazing number of people in one industry out of work,” she said.