by Michael Pakko | Apr 20, 2020
In Friday’s post covering the March report on Arkansas employment and unemployment, we noted an anomalous implication of the data used to calculate the unemployment rate: With the number of unemployed going up by 18,526 and the number of employed rising slightly...
by Michael Pakko | Apr 17, 2020
(Updated 4:55 P.M., Revised April 18, 2020) The March report on state-level employment and unemployment showed early, initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the survey reference periods for the report predate many business and school closures that occurred...
by Michael Pakko | Sep 28, 2017
Unemployment rates in Arkansas metro areas remain lower than a year earlier. Wednesday’s news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that year-over-year changes in unemployment rates show declines in 323 of the nations 388 metropolitan areas, with...
by Michael Pakko | Sep 1, 2017
July data on employment and unemployment in metropolitan areas showed that unemployment rates were lower than a year earlier in all Metro areas covering parts of Arkansas. Year-over-year changes in not-seasonally adjusted data range from -0.3 percentage points in...
by Michael Pakko | Aug 18, 2017
The latest report on state level employment and unemployment showed another strong month for Arkansas. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at the very low level of 3.4%, and remains 0.9% lower than the national average. The underlying components of the...
by Michael Pakko | Aug 2, 2017
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that unemployment rates were lower in June than a year earlier in 336 of the 388 metropolitan areas in the U.S. All of Arkansas metro areas, except Texarkana, fell into that category. With an unemployment rate...
