Nevada is starting to see a trickle of stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, creating some new employment and improving infrastructure — but it’s far too little and too late for 65,000 construction workers who lost jobs during the recession, a Las Vegas business consultant said Wednesday.

The state is estimated to receive $2.3 billion in federal funding, with $2.1 billion of that coming by the end of the first quarter 2010, Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis reported in a second-quarter market briefing prepared for the Las Vegas chapter of Associated General Contractors.