by - February 29, 2024 2:16 pm
The Fort Smith metro ended 2023 with a slight uptick in jobs, but the number of unemployed in the region jumped 40% between December 2022 and December 2023, according to…
by - May 6, 2020 5:13 pm
The March jobs report for the Fort Smith metro shows the first signs of COVID-19 on the regional economy, with the jobless rate rising to 4.2%, up from 3.8% in…
by - April 13, 2020 12:04 pm
The last jobless report for the Fort Smith metro that does not include the COVID-19 impact shows a decline in the jobless rate, but year-over-year job growth was almost flat,…
by - March 26, 2020 1:30 pm
Year-over-year job growth in the Fort Smith metro was a scant 0.66% in January, although the metro jobless rate fell to 4.1% from 4.4% in January 2019. The number of…
by - January 7, 2020 2:14 pm
The Fort Smith metro jobless rate was 3.4% in November, up from 3.3% in November 2018, with the region seeing only marginal changes in the size of the available workforce…
by - June 12, 2019 3:03 pm
The Fort Smith metro jobless rate fell to a record low of 2.9% in April, with all four counties in the region below 4%. The April 2018 rate was 3.7%….
by - May 20, 2019 4:50 pm
A small gain in new jobs combined with a decline in the available workforce resulted in a Fort Smith metro jobless rate of 3.5% in March, down from 4.4% in…
