by - May 27, 2015 10:21 am
Jobless rate rises to 5.7% in April, but Arkansas economy adding jobs
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…
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by - April 21, 2015 10:51 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate holds at 5.6% in March
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
Big gain in Arkansas tourism jobs helps drop jobless rate to 5.5%
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 numbers positive for Arkansas in January, jobless rate dips to 5.6%
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…
by - March 4, 2015 11:13 am
Arkansas’ jobless average dips below 7% for first time since 2008
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 jobless rate dips to 5.7%, rate much higher for minorities
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 posts job gains in November, manufacturing sector up 3.5%
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
Arkansas’ labor market continues decline, nonfarm payroll number rises
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
Arkansas’ workforce, number of employed continues decline in August report
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 workforce, employment numbers decline in July
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’ labor force down in June, jobless rate dips to 6.2%
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’ labor force size continues decline, jobless rate falls to 6.4% (Updated)
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 falls to 6.6%, labor force still shrinking
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’ jobless rate below 7% for first time in more than five years
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
Arkansas’ jobless rate falls to 7.1% in February
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
January marks 60 months of Arkansas’ jobless rate above 7%
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 one of six states to post year-over-year jobless rate rise
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
Negative jobs trend continues for Arkansas’ economy
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’ October jobless rate rises to 7.5%
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’ labor force shrinking, jobless rate at 7.4%
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…