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Arkansas unemployment rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point, from 4.5% in February to 4.4% in March, the state Division of Workforce Services said Friday.
The report said Arkansas civilian labor force decreased by 3,789, with 2,382 fewer employed and 1,407 fewer unemployed Arkansans.
At the same time, the U.S. jobless rate declined two-tenths of a percentage point, from 6.2% in February to 6.0% in March. Arkansas unemployment rate continues to decline, down to 4.4% in March, BLS Program Operations Manager Susan Price said in a news release. Unemployment is now half a percentage point higher than in March 2020, when Arkansas pre-pandemic unemployment rate was at 3.9 percent.
Send Arkansas seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2% in November, unchanged from October, the state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday.
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