by - July 30, 2013 5:12 pm
NWA jobless rate rises to 5.7% in June
The Northwest Arkansas metro jobless rate rose in June, with the continued rise in the number of employed not enough to counter the record growth in the workforce size. The…
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by - July 3, 2013 1:39 pm
NWA jobless rate rises to 5.6% in May
The May jobless rate rose in Northwest Arkansas with gains in the workforce size and the number of employed not enough to counter a more than 1% rise in the…
by - July 3, 2013 1:36 pm
Fort Smith area jobless rate rises to 7.7%
The combination of a 0.23% gain in the Fort Smith regional workforce number and a 5.3% increase in the number of area unemployed pushed the regional jobless rate higher in…
by - May 29, 2013 3:03 pm
Fort Smith area jobless rate dips to 7.2% in April
Gains were seen in the size of the workforce and the number of employed in the Fort Smith region during April, but the numbers are still below year-ago figures. April’s…
by - May 29, 2013 3:01 pm
NWA jobless rate falls to 5.1% in April
The workforce size in Northwest Arkansas grew by almost 5,000 in April compared to March, with the number of employed up more than an estimated 5,400 – two clear signs…
by - March 25, 2013 6:21 pm
Fort Smith area jobless rate rises to 8.7%
An increase of almost 1,300 in the number of unemployed in the Fort Smith metro countered sizeable increases in the workforce and number of employed to push the region’s jobless…
by - January 30, 2013 4:36 pm
NWA sees 4,700-plus job gain year-over-year
The Northwest Arkansas employment picture during December was not as rosy as November, but the region continues to see gains when compared to the previous year. December’s jobless rate in…
by - January 30, 2013 4:33 pm
Fort Smith metro jobless rate rise to 8.1%
Economic conditions in the Fort Smith metro area worsened in December, with the workforce shrinking by more than 1,800 and the number of employed shrinking by more than 1,000 compared…
by - November 28, 2012 11:28 am
Fort Smith area jobless rate rises to 7.9%
The number of unemployed in the Fort Smith region rose above 10,000 during October, which helped push the region’s jobless rate up to 7.9% from 7.6% in September. The October…
by - November 28, 2012 11:22 am
Northwest Arkansas jobless rate up in October
An uptick in the number of unemployed in Northwest Arkansas and a dip in the number of employed pushed the region’s October jobless rate up to 5% compared to 4.9%…
by - October 30, 2012 2:51 pm
Fort Smith metro jobless rate down to 7.6% in September
With the number of unemployed falling below 10,000 and the number of unemployed back above 120,000, the Fort Smith regional jobless rate was 7.6% in September, down from a 7.9%…
by - October 30, 2012 2:47 pm
NWA jobless rate dips below 5%
The unemployment rate in Northwest Arkansas fell in September to 4.9%, the first time the rate has been below 5% since November 2008. The jobless rate was below the 5.3%…
by - October 3, 2012 11:12 am
Fort Smith area August jobless rate declines
The Fort Smith regional jobless rate was 7.9% in August, down from a 8.5% in July and down from 8.8% in August 2011, but the 44th consecutive month the rate…
by - October 3, 2012 11:08 am
NWA jobless rate declines in August
The unemployment rate in Northwest Arkansas fell in August to 5.3% thanks to more than 2,000 fewer unemployed in the economic region. August is the fifth month in 2012 with…
by - September 26, 2012 7:36 am
Fort Smith job fair draws record crowd
The “best kept secret in government,” according to Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, a division of the Arkansas Department of Career Education (ACE), is not a secret anymore…