by - December 14, 2020 4:43 pm
Employment figures for November fell short of seasonal expectations according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an analysis from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture…
by - August 11, 2020 6:12 pm
Service sector jobs in Arkansas are on the rise and it has reduced the COVID-19 unemployment rate, but gains may be undercut as states re-shutter businesses, according to an economic…
by - October 4, 2019 11:51 am
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low Friday (Oct. 4), but weaker-than-expected job growth underpinning the nation’s tight labor pool continues to stoke fears of a possible economic…
by - April 25, 2019 5:33 pm
After Tuesday’s announcement that 565 jobs would be coming to the Little Rock Port from Czech Republic gun maker CZ-USA, state economic officials announced two more big projects in Camden…
by - March 11, 2019 1:55 pm
Arkansas’ unemployment rate remained flat in January amid fears by some economists that the U.S. job market peaked entering into 2019. In January, the state’s jobless rate held steady at…
by - March 7, 2019 7:22 pm
Nurses, electricians and diesel technicians are a few of the jobs that will be in high demand over the next decade, studies show. The Springdale Chamber of Commerce recently commissioned…
by - January 18, 2019 11:48 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate remained at 3.6% for the second straight month as the employers in most industries continued to post “help wanted” signs at the end of 2018 and into…
by - February 2, 2018 10:35 am
U.S. employers added 200,000 jobs in the first month of the new year, well above Wall Street expectations as the nation’s jobless rate remained stable at 4.1% for the fourth…
by - May 26, 2016 2:05 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson recently touted to business leaders that the state has added 42,000 new jobs and reached an all-time low jobless rate of 3.9% during the first 16 months…
by - April 1, 2016 8:27 am
The broader U.S. economy added 215,000 new jobs in March as the jobless rate held steady at 5%, down one percentage point from a month ago and little unchanged for…
by - October 21, 2013 8:44 pm
Serco is actively interviewing and hiring some 900 additional workers this week for its new Rogers data processing center, according to Candy Curtin, vice president of HR for the global…
by - August 8, 2013 5:34 pm
The part-time workforce continues to expand at a faster rate thanks to several factors in play. While some expect the trend to continue as the new health care law is…
by - March 7, 2013 5:23 pm
Businesses large and small across Northwest Arkansas plan to invest $808 million in expansion efforts adding 965 new jobs by 2015. This data was collected in a group business retention…
by - February 19, 2013 2:49 pm
Employee-owned Harps Foods will open its 72nd grocery center Wednesday (Feb. 20) in the heart of West Fork, adjacent to the town’s school. Springdale-based Harps said the new store adds…
by - May 1, 2012 9:12 pm
BLOOMBERG — Manufacturing grew in April at the fastest pace in almost a year, propelled by a pickup in orders that signaled factories will remain a source of strength for…
by - January 31, 2012 12:08 pm
American Vegetable Soybean and Edamame, Inc., (AVS) announced Tuesday it would add "40-60 new jobs" in Mulberry in the next three years in the production of Edamame. Edamame are immature…
