Arkansas Unemployment Numbers
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Arkansas` unemployment rate dropped slightly
last month to five-point-four percent, a tenth of a point below the
rate for July.
The Arkansas Workforce Investment Board says that`s the second
consecutive monthly decrease.
The national figure also fell by a tenth of a point to
six-point-ond percent for the month.
The number of employed Arkansans increased by 900 workers to one
(m) million, 233-thousand, 500 while the number of jobless
Arkansans decreased by 400 to 70-thousand, 700 in August.
The biggest increase in a single sector was 45-hundred
additional government jobs, which is normal as support personnel
return to work for the start of the school year.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
