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-Arkansas’ June jobless rate at 3.3%, above 3% in June 2023
Federal data posted Friday (July 19) shows a more than 10% year-over-year increase in the number of unemployed in Arkansas, with the state’s June jobless rate at 3.3%, above the…
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-Federal data posted Friday (July 19) shows a more than 10% year-over-year increase in the number of unemployed in Arkansas, with the state’s June jobless rate at 3.3%, above the…
by June 25, 2024 9:58 am
-A year-over-year gain of more than 8,500 net new jobs in May was not enough to offset a 17% rise in the number of unemployed, leaving Arkansas’ jobless rate at…
by May 17, 2024 10:29 am
-There were more than 6,500 net new jobs year-over-year in Arkansas in April, but the number of unemployed increased by more than 20%. As a result, the state’s jobless rate…
by April 19, 2024 9:50 am
-Arkansas’ March jobless rate of 3.5% was down from 3.6% in February, but was higher than the 2.8% in March 2023 thanks in large part to an almost 24% year-over-year…
by March 22, 2024 11:11 am
-A more than 24% year-over-year increase in Arkansans without jobs and slower pace of job growth helped pushed the state’s February jobless rate to 3.6%, up from 2.9% in February…
by March 11, 2024 10:49 am
-Arkansas’ jobless rate rose to 3.7% in January from 3.4% in January 2023 even with year-over-year employment gains in Education and Health Services and the Construction sectors., according to a…
by January 23, 2024 2:48 pm
-Arkansas’ jobless rate in December rose slightly to 3.4% from 3.3% in November. The rate was unchanged from December 2022. The estimated number of Arkansans without jobs rose by 446…
by December 22, 2023 10:08 am
-Despite big job gains in Arkansas’ tourism and construction sectors, the state’s jobless rate in November rose to 3.3% from 3.1% in October. The rate was below the 3.5% in…
by November 17, 2023 11:29 am
-A continued rise in the number of Arkansans without jobs pushed the state’s jobless rate from 2.9% in September to 3.1% in October. It’s the first time the jobless rate…
by October 21, 2023 10:21 am
-An almost 7% month-to-month increase in the number of jobless pushed Arkansas’ unemployment rate from 2.7% in August to 2.9% in September. However, the number of jobless in September is…
by September 19, 2023 2:36 pm
-An increase in the number of jobless between July and August was partially responsible for Arkansas’ jobless rate rising from 2.6% in July to 2.7% in August. But the rate…
by August 18, 2023 10:29 am
-Year-over-year job gains Arkansas during July outpaced labor force growth which helped keep the state’s jobless rate at a record low of 2.6%, and was well below the 3.3% in…
by July 21, 2023 11:11 am
-A year-over-year gain of more than 21,000 jobs and an almost 20% drop in the number of unemployed pushed Arkansas’ June jobless rate to a new record low of 2.6%….
by May 19, 2023 10:35 am
-An almost 10% decline in the number of unemployed and a 1% gain in jobs year-over-year helped push Arkansas’ April jobless rate to 2.8%, below the 3.1% in April 2022…
by April 21, 2023 12:01 pm
-A more than 5% decline in the number of unemployed helped push Arkansas’ jobless rate to a new record low of 3% in March, and better than the 3.1% in…
by March 13, 2023 11:23 am
-The number of jobless Arkansans rose 6.3% in January while the number of those with jobs rose just 0.88% compared with January 2022, which pushed the state’s jobless rate up…
by January 24, 2023 10:39 am
-Arkansas’ December jobless rate of 3.6% was better than the 3.7% in November, but is higher than the 3.3% in December 2021. The labor force participation rate improved, but the…
by December 16, 2022 10:44 am
-After reaching a recent low of 3.1% in February, Arkansas’ jobless rate moved higher during the year and reached 3.7% in November, which was higher than the 3.3% in November…
by November 18, 2022 10:55 am
-The number of unemployed in Arkansas has risen for seven straight months and the number with jobs has declined for three consecutive months, pushing the state’s jobless rate to 3.6%…
by October 21, 2022 9:50 am
-A slight increase in the number of unemployed and fewer jobs compared to August caused Arkansas’ jobless rate to increase from 3.4% in August to 3.5% in September. The September…