Arkansas unemployment figures

The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services announced yesterday that the state's unemployment rate increased 0.2% to 5.7% in September. The U.S. Department of Labor has yet to release September unemployment figures for the Texarkana MSA, but the rate in August (not seasonally adjusted) was 4.5%. The Texas unemployment rate rose a notch to 4.3%. Here are Arkansas figures by county for August, 2007: