Friday, October 19, 2012
Arkansas Politics Arkansas unemployment rate drops to 7.1 percent
Posted by Max Brantley on Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Things are getting better, though it grieves the Koch/Republican Party to say so, because they like bad things to happen to Arkansas and America.
Roby Brock reports on the September unemployment rate, 7.1 in Arkansas versus 7.3 in August and a full point lower than September 2011. The workforce is almost 20,000 people larger than it was a year ago.
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March 18, 2013The monthly report: Labor force data, produced by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics and released today by the Department of Workforce Services, show Arkansas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased one-tenth of a percentage point from 7.1 percent in December to 7.2 percent in January. /more/
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