by - May 17, 2019 2:52 pm
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell to 3.6% in April from the 3.7% in March, matching the record low first posted in March 2017. Year-over-year, the state economy added 10,700 jobs, a…
by - April 19, 2019 11:27 am
An estimated gain of 8,585 jobs between March 2018 and March 2019 helped push Arkansas’ jobless rate to 3.7%, better than the 3.8% in March 2018 and the 3.8% in…
by - March 22, 2019 11:27 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate was 3.8% in February, marking 32 consecutive months the closely watched economic indicator has been under 4%. The rate was up from 3.7% in January, and unchanged…
by - December 21, 2018 9:58 am
Arkansas’ unemployment rate in November rose one-tenth of a percent to 3.6%, according to state and federal workforce officials. On Friday (Dec. 21), the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services released…
by - October 28, 2018 11:03 am
While Arkansas’ unemployment rate has fallen to an all-time low of 3.5%, UA economist Mervin Jebaraj warns that there is a troubling trend of younger workers dropping out of the…
by - July 20, 2018 2:36 pm
Arkansas’ labor force saw a loss of nearly 1,400 positions in June, but the state’s jobless rate remained hedged in at 4% for the fifth month as worries about the…
by - June 15, 2018 7:26 pm
Arkansas’ manufacturing sector continued to outperform most of the state’s economy in 2018 as another 1,200 jobs were added at mostly “soft good” factories across the state between May and…
by - April 29, 2018 10:04 am
Despite a steady unemployment number of 3.8%, a University of Arkansas economist says there are underlying fundamentals that need to improve to maintain Arkansas’ continued jobs momentum. Economist Mervin Jebaraj,…
by - April 20, 2018 2:13 pm
Arkansas’ tight job market held serve in March in line with the national trend where unemployment rates in nearly all 50 states reported little or no change at the end…
by - March 23, 2018 6:42 pm
Arkansas’ jobless rate crept up one-tenth of a percentage point in February as the number of unemployed persons in the state’s brimming labor pool continued to grow, according to labor…
by - March 12, 2018 11:26 am
Arkansas’ unemployment rate held steady entering 2018 as the state’s education, healthcare, manufacturing and professional and business sectors helped expand the economy by adding nearly 8,000 jobs over the past…
by - January 23, 2018 12:11 pm
Arkansas closed out the final month of the year with 10,000 fewer workers in the state’s brimming labor pool and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7% for the second…
by - December 22, 2017 10:17 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate edged up to 3.7% in November as the state’s civilian labor force decline by more than 6,000 as fewer workers sought gainful employment ahead of the holiday…
by - October 20, 2017 2:56 pm
Arkansas’ unemployment rate held steady at 3.5% for the second straight month as the state’s civilian labor pool closes in on levels not seen in nearly a decade. According to…
by - September 15, 2017 11:47 am
Arkansas was the among several states that saw higher unemployment rates in August, but U.S. Labor Department officials said Hurricane Harvey had “no discernible effect” on the nation’s employment picture…
by - August 23, 2017 6:23 pm
New data from the U.S. Labor Department shows that Arkansas had the second-largest percentage gain in nonfarm payroll U.S. employment over the past 12 months, adding nearly 33,000 jobs to…
by - August 18, 2017 12:41 pm
Arkansas’ jobless rate held steady in July as the state’s brimming labor pool added another 9,100 new workers amid employers’ continued quest to find capable workers to fill positions throughout…
by - July 21, 2017 4:44 pm
For the first time in several months, Arkansas jobless rate remained unchanged at an all-time record low of 3.4% as thousands of new positions were added to the state’s burgeoning…
by - April 21, 2017 1:45 pm
A reduction in the state’s available labor pool and a year-over-year gain of more than 2,000 jobs helped push Arkansas’ March jobless rate to a new record low of 3.6%….
by - March 24, 2017 10:35 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate touched another all-time low of 3.7% in February as the state’s brimming labor pool added nearly 1,500 new workers and nonfarm employment jumped by 15,600 between months,…
