Arkansas unemployment figures

The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services released unemployment figures for November today -- we remained at 5.7%. Where does that rank among the states? Not good -- 46th. Our all-time high is 10.2% (March, 1983), and the all-time low in Arkansas is 4.1% (September, 2000). The current U.S. unemployment rate is 4.7%.

The U.S. Department of Labor has yet to release November unemployment figures for the Texarkana MSA, but the rate in October (not seasonally adjusted) was 4.4%. The Texas unemployment rate rose a notch to 4.2%. Here are Arkansas figures by county for October, 2007: