by - January 20, 2017 11:21 am
Unemployment in Arkansas at the end of 2016 fell below the 4% level again in December, tumbling one percentage point for the month as retailers across the state hired temporary…
by - December 16, 2016 10:44 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate remained unchanged for the third straight month in November as employers in the high-paying professional and businesses service supersector continued to add new positions although growth leveled…
by - July 22, 2016 9:23 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate remained unchanged in June from last month; however, the state’s civilian pool declined slightly as employers added fewer workers to payrolls before the back-to-school employment surge begins…
by - June 17, 2016 9:47 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell another point to another all-time low in May, but the state’s civilian pool remained flat as the number of employed and unemployed workers offset each other…
by - May 20, 2016 9:13 am
Arkansas’ job market continued to venture into new territory in April as the state’s jobless rate fell from last’s month’s seasonally adjusted all-time low of 4.1% and total employment touched…
by - April 15, 2016 9:12 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell to its lowest level in the state’s history in March, declining two-tenths of a percentage point from last’s month’s previous hallmark while adding more than 7,000…
by - March 14, 2016 9:46 am
Arkansas’ job market got off to a strong start in 2016 as the state’s jobless rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point in January as more than 6,000 workers were…
by - February 28, 2016 9:58 am
Arkansas’ average jobless rate in 2015 was 5.2%, below the 6.1% in 2014 and well below the 7.4% average in 2013. It is the first time the annual average dropped…
by - January 26, 2016 10:17 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell below to 5% for the first time since June 2001 as the state’s labor pool climbed to 1,337,500 in December, according to the figures released Tuesday…
by - December 18, 2015 10:58 am
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by - November 20, 2015 10:55 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell in tandem with the rest of the nation in October as government, education, health services and the trade and transportation sectors continued to add workers to…
by - October 20, 2015 5:24 pm
Arkansas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell another two-tenths of percentage point to 5.2% in September as employers added 33,500 workers to Arkansas payrolls in the past year. That draws Arkansas…
by - September 18, 2015 1:14 pm
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell to 5.4% in August thanks to a year-over-year gain of more than 43,000 jobs. Also, the number of unemployed declined by 4,825 in August compared to…
by - August 21, 2015 10:34 am
More than 43,000 were employed in Arkansas in July compared to July 2014, and the July jobless rate fell to 5.6% from 5.7% in June. The July 2014 jobless rate…
by - July 21, 2015 10:08 am
The estimated number of employed in Arkansas outpaced the size of the workforce, which held the state’s jobless rate at 5.7% in June. Federal figures released Tuesday morning show more…
by - June 19, 2015 10:29 am
A year-over-year gain of more than 46,000 jobs kept Arkansas’ jobless rate at 5.7% during May. The month marked the 11th consecutive month the rate has been at or below…
by - May 27, 2015 10:21 am
Arkansas was one of 11 states to see a jobless rate rise in April compared to March. However, the rate rise was a function of a bigger gain in the…
by - April 21, 2015 10:51 am
Relatively stable growth in the labor force size and the number of employed held Arkansas’ jobless rate at 5.6% in March. It is the ninth consecutive month the jobless rate…
by - March 27, 2015 10:42 am
An estimated year-over-year gain of 8,700 jobs in Arkansas’ tourism sector and 7,200 jobs gained in the trade, transportation and utilities sector pushed the state’s February jobless rate down to…
by - March 17, 2015 2:05 pm
Labor market numbers moved in the right direction for Arkansas during January, with the number of employed up more than 3%, the workforce size up more than 2% and unemployment…
