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Arkansas Employment and Unemployment – April 2012
The unemployment rate in Arkansas declined another two-tenths of a percent in April, dropping to 7.2%. When the U.S. unemployment rate...
Arkansas Taxable Sales – 2012:Q1 (Preliminary*)
Recently-released sales tax data from the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration indicate that Arkansas Taxable Sales (ATS) increased by 1.7%...
Arkansas Home Sales – 2012:Q1
Yesterday’s report from the Arkansas Realtors® Association showed that March home sales were up 1.1% from a year earlier. In...
Metro Area Unemployment Rates – March 2012
Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment rates in March were down from the previous year in 342...
County Per Capita Income – 2010
New estimates of local area personal income for 2010 were released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The...

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