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…
by - April 19, 2013 10:40 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate was 7.2% in March, unchanged from February and just slightly below the 7.3% in March 2012. One of the largest sector drops was in travel and tourism…
by - March 29, 2013 10:42 am
February marks 49 consecutive months that Arkansas’ jobless rate has been at or above 7%. February also continued a trend in which the jobless rate improves but declines in the…
by - March 18, 2013 10:59 am
The good news about Arkansas’ January jobless picture is that the number of unemployed is down 5.17% compared to January 2012. The bad news is that the number of employed…
by - March 1, 2013 10:35 am
Arkansas’ annual average jobless rate fell from 7.9% during 2011 to 7.3% during 2012, according to a report released Friday (Mar. 1) by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)….
by - January 18, 2013 9:47 am
Small percentage declines in Arkansas’ workforce numbers and the number of employed pushed Arkansas’ December unemployment rate to 7.1%, up from 7% in November, but below the 7.8% in December…
by - December 21, 2012 10:39 am
An across the board decline in the size of the workforce, the number of employed and the number of unemployed served to push Arkansas’ November jobless rate to 7% –…
by - November 20, 2012 11:02 am
With almost 4,800 more Arkansans unemployed during October, the state’s jobless rate inched higher to 7.2%. October marked the 45th consecutive month Arkansas’ jobless rate has been above 7%. The…
by - September 21, 2012 11:42 am
Although Arkansas’ jobless rate remained unchanged at 7.3% in August, the August jobs report for the state clearly shows a negative trend of declines in employment and workforce size. Arkansas…
