{"id":274870,"date":"2025-07-19T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274870\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:56:09","slug":"arkansas-unemployment-rate-holds-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274870\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas unemployment rate holds steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) &#8211; The Arkansas Department of Commerce and the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday that the state\u2019s unemployment rate remains stable at 3.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s the fourth consecutive month that the unemployment rate has been 3.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arkansas\u2019s civilian labor force and employment both increased slightly in June to remain at record levels, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, the number of unemployed Arkansans seeking work increased by 419.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nonfarm payroll jobs decreased by 3,600 in June, while government jobs fell 7,200. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Department of Commerce reported gains in Leisure and Hospitality, up 1,500 jobs, and Manufacturing, which reported an increase of 1,300 jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information and to see unemployment rates in each Arkansas County, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discover.arkansas.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.discover.arkansas.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To report a typo or correction, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kait8.com\/page\/tips\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KAIT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) &#8211; The Arkansas Department of Commerce and the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[17987,35906,51,103973,897,16,5664,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-274870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-arkansas","9":"tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-department-of-commerce","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-unemployment","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114880248772934121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}