by - March 4, 2015 11:13 am
Arkansas’ average jobless rate for 2014 was 6.1%, down 1.3% percentage points from the 7.4% average in 2013. It is the first time the annual average dropped below 7% since…
by - January 27, 2015 5:43 pm
Arkansas’ labor market is showing signs of stability, but the jobless rate for black teenagers in Arkansas hovers at or below 40%, and has in recent years been as high…
by - December 19, 2014 10:04 am
Arkansas’ November labor report showed a positive trend in terms of labor force growth and shows a gain of almost 12,000 jobs compared to November 2013. The report included a…
by - October 21, 2014 12:50 pm
The September labor report is more of the same. Arkansas’ jobless rate fell to 6.2% compared to 7.7% in September 2013, although the size of the workforce fell by 1.89%…
by - September 19, 2014 2:34 pm
There are an estimated 28,614 fewer Arkansans in the workforce and 8,434 fewer Arkansans employed in August compared to August 2013. The August jobless rate was 6.3%, up from 6.2%…
by - August 18, 2014 4:43 pm
Arkansas’ July jobless rate of 6.2% is well below the 7.7% of July 2013, but the decline of more than 26,000 in the state’s labor force and an employment decline…
by - July 18, 2014 9:49 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell to 6.2% in June, with the number of employed virtually flat compared to June 2013 and the labor force size shrinking by almost 20,000 in the…
by - June 20, 2014 10:00 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell to 6.4% in May, but the state’s labor force continues to decline in size, and the number of employed during May was the lowest level of…
by - May 16, 2014 11:51 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate during April fell to 6.6% thanks to an estimated increase of 7,762 employed Arkansans and a more than 12% decline in the number of unemployed. However, the…
by - April 18, 2014 11:42 am
Arkansas’ March jobless rate of 6.9% ends 61 consecutive months that the rate was at or above 7%, and the drop was helped by significant year-over-year job gains in the…
by - March 28, 2014 9:37 am
An almost 5% decline in the estimated number of out-of-work Arkansans and a 0.59% increase in the number of Arkansans with jobs helped push the state’s February jobless rate to…
by - March 17, 2014 12:14 pm
Arkansas’ jobless rate dipped to 7.3% in January thanks to a more than 2.6% drop in the number of unemployed. However, January marked 60 consecutive months – five years –…
by - January 28, 2014 1:57 pm
Arkansas’ jobs numbers were anything but positive in December, with the jobless rate of 7.4% up from 7.1% in December 2012. The labor force in December was down 1.47%, the…
by - December 20, 2013 10:00 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate was 7.5% in November, unchanged compared to October, but above the 7.2% in November 2012. Arkansas was one of just seven states to post a year-over-year jobless…
by - November 22, 2013 10:18 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate rose to 7.5% in October, the highest level for the year, thanks primarily to the largest number of unemployed in the state in the past 20 months…
by - September 20, 2013 10:10 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate during August was unchanged compared to July, but a year-over-year comparison shows that 27,000 have left the workforce and more than 26,000 fewer Arkansans are employed. The…
by - August 19, 2013 12:41 pm
Arkansas’ jobless rate has ticked higher during 2013, with the July unemployment rate rising to 7.4% from the 7.3% in June. The rate is unchanged compared to July 2012. Although…
by - July 19, 2013 10:12 am
With a June jobless rate of 7.3%, Arkansas was one of six U.S. states to not see a jobless rate change compared to June 2012. Year-over-year jobless rate decreases were…
by - June 21, 2013 2:42 pm
An almost 2% decline in Arkansas’ workforce and the number of employed pushed the state’s jobless rate higher to 7.3% in May, with one market watcher noting an unusual and…
by - May 22, 2013 12:08 pm
Arkansas’ jobless rate during April fell to 7.1%, but the rate does not show the full picture of the state’s workforce health. Kathy Deck, director of business and economic research…
