by - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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…
by - September 30, 2020 3:18 pm
Five of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas posted jobless rate declines in August compared to July, and three areas had a jobless rate less than the…
by - September 3, 2020 11:58 am
Seven of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas posted jobless rate declines in July compared to June, as the jobs picture in the state continues to improve…
by - July 29, 2020 4:57 pm
June jobless rates in all eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas fell compared to May, but continue to be higher than rates in June 2019. The biggest improvement…
by - July 1, 2020 3:58 pm
The May jobless rate was lower than April in all of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas, but the rate in all regions remained well above the…
by - June 4, 2020 2:19 pm
Arkansas’ three largest in-state metro regions combined for 52,930 job losses in April compared with April 2019. The Hot Springs metro posted an April jobless rate of 15.3%, the highest…
by - April 30, 2020 12:10 pm
All metro areas in or connected to Arkansas posted jobless rate increases in March, with year-over-year increases in the number of unemployed ranging between 44% in Jonesboro to 4.8% in…
by - April 8, 2020 3:31 pm
In what is likely the last pre-COVID-19 jobs report for metro areas, five of the eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas posted year-over-year job gains in February, according…
by - March 24, 2020 5:41 pm
January metro jobs data shows growth strong in Northwest Arkansas, Jonesboro Northwest Arkansas posted the largest year-over-year job gain in the January jobs report among the eight metro areas in…
by - June 5, 2017 3:17 pm
Jobless rates fell in April compared to March for all eight metro areas in or connected to Arkansas. The Northwest Arkansas metro added an impressive 10,263 jobs year-over-year, and posted…
by - November 30, 2016 1:11 pm
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