by January 6, 2025 1:00 pm
-November job numbers up in all Arkansas metro areas
As was the case in October, all eight of the metro areas in or connected to Arkansas had job gains in November. Northwest Arkansas had the lowest metro rate at…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - January 6, 2025 1:00 pm
As was the case in October, all eight of the metro areas in or connected to Arkansas had job gains in November. Northwest Arkansas had the lowest metro rate at…
by Michael Tilley - December 2, 2024 11:12 am
All eight of the metro areas in or connected to Arkansas had job gains in October, and five of the eight areas had year-over-year jobless rate declines. Northwest Arkansas had…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - October 4, 2024 10:58 am
August job numbers show that five of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas had year-over-year jobless rate declines. Northwest Arkansas had the lowest August rate at 2.6%,…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - August 28, 2024 2:07 pm
A July jobs report on U.S. metro areas shows that Arkansas job gains continue to be driven by the central Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas economies. Northwest Arkansas had the lowest…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - July 30, 2024 10:21 am
Job numbers in June were up in most metro areas in or connected to Arkansas, but the jobless rate in all metro areas was up in the June report. Northwest…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - May 29, 2024 11:22 am
The central Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas regions posted record April job numbers, with job numbers up in five of the eight metro areas in or including parts of Arkansas. Central…
by Michael Tilley - May 6, 2024 11:26 am
Job numbers were down in four of Arkansas’ eight metro areas in March, with the Northwest Arkansas metro having the highest percentage year-over-year growth at 2.1%. All but one area…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - April 4, 2024 10:50 am
February job numbers were down in five of the eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas. The Central Arkansas metro posted the biggest year-over-year job gain, with the…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - June 28, 2023 12:19 pm
The May jobless rate report on all of the eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas shows that the Northwest Arkansas and central Arkansas areas had most of…
by Michael Tilley - February 7, 2023 10:05 am
Jobless rates remain low in all of the eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas, but six showed rate increases in December compared with December 2021, according to…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - December 5, 2022 12:50 pm
Metro job gains in central Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith metro accounted for almost all of the state job gain increase in October, according to the U.S. Bureau…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - September 29, 2022 2:39 pm
Jobless rates in all eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas were down compared with August 2021, and all areas posted year-over-year job gains. The largest job growth…
by Michael Tilley - August 4, 2022 4:05 pm
Jobless rates in all eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas were up compared with June 2021, but all areas posted year-over-year job gains. The largest job growth…
by Michael Tilley - June 29, 2022 2:24 pm
Jobless rates in all eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas were down compared with May 2021, and all areas posted year-over-year job gains. The largest job growth…
by Michael Tilley - March 3, 2022 3:40 pm
Two of the eight metro areas within or including parts of Arkansas had jobless rates below 2% in December, and only two metros (central Arkansas and Hot Springs) have employment…
by Michael Tilley - November 11, 2021 4:19 pm
Arkansas’ three largest metro regions – areas with most of the workforce in the state – accounted for 78.3% of the state’s 45,532 year-over-year job gains in September, with the…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - September 30, 2021 10:36 am
Arkansas’ three largest metro regions – areas with most of the workforce in the state – had 30,972 more employed in August compared with August 2020. Northwest Arkansas jobs rose…
by Michael Tilley - July 1, 2021 12:11 pm
What a difference a year makes. Arkansas’ three largest metro areas – the areas with most of the workforce in the state – had 48,716 more employed in May compared…
by Michael Tilley - April 28, 2021 3:27 pm
Of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas only three (Northwest Arkansas, Fort Smith and Pine Bluff) posted year-over-year job gains in March, and all areas had higher…
by Talk Business & Politics staff - March 23, 2021 3:00 pm
Seven of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas posted jobless rate declines in January compared to December, and all areas had higher year-over-year jobless rates, according to…