U.S. employers posted a record-high number of open jobs for the second straight month as a rapidly rebounding economy generates intense demand for workers. The number of available jobs on…
American homebuyers have had a surprising rebound in home signings in May after months of a lacking inventory pushing prices up. The National Association of Realtors’ index of pending home…
The state’s unemployment rates stay below the national rate of 5.8% in May. This comes as an improvement from Arkansas’s rate last year of 8.5% at the beginning of the…
Little Rock National Airport prepares as millions travel for Memorial Day weekend Millions of people across the nation are traveling this weekend for Memorial Day weekend.As we get past the…
Americans increased their spending by 0.5% in April, a slowdown after a massive gain in March that had been powered by the distribution of billions of dollars in individual stimulus…
Arkansas will begin giving lottery tickets and gift certificates for hunting and fishing licenses to people who get the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Tuesday. Hutchinson said $20 scratch-off…
The U.S. housing market has gotten so out of whack, with demand far outpacing supply, that prices have risen to record levels and roughly half of all U.S. houses are…
There’s good news on the restaurant beat. It’s about time. “They’re busy, really busy,” Montine McNulty, CEO of the Arkansas Hospitality Association, says of the state’s restaurants. That’s proving to…
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index rose to 99.8 in April, an increase of 1.6 points from March. The Optimism Index has increased 4.8 points over the past three months…
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell for the third straight month in April as the number of properties for sale hit a record low, driving prices to new highs. …
T he April jobs report is a clear sign the state’s economy is in recovery, with job gains up 5.5% compared with April 2020, and the number of unemployed down…
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 444,000, a new pandemic low and a sign that the job market keeps strengthening as consumers spend freely again,…
COVID-19 vaccination rates were 6.8 percentage points lower in rural U.S. counties than in urban counties as of early April, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published May 18.…
Layoffs and lockdowns, combined with enhanced unemployment benefits and stimulus checks, gave many Americans the time and the financial cushion to rethink their careers. Their former employers are hiring again…
COVID-19 has impacted Arkansans in a variety of ways. For families who have lost partial or full wages due to layoffs and shut downs, the stress of keeping a roof…
North America’s sawmills can’t keep up with demand, which has sent wood prices on a meteoric rise. Don’t expect new mills to start popping up though.Executives in the cyclical business…
There’s a wild card in the push to return to post-pandemic life: Many workers don’t want to go back to the jobs they once had. Layoffs and lockdowns, combined with…
Kinetic by Windstream, a business unit of Windstream Holdings Inc. of Little Rock, said Monday that will create 1,000 jobs across 18 states as its new engineering and fiber construction…
Hot Springs tourism sales hit record following 'miserable' pandemic year Hot Springs, one of the state's busiest tourism cities got hit hard with the pandemic, but one of the biggest…
Cities see proof that economies are bouncing back post-pandemic Cities across our area are seeing increased sales tax revenue and interest from companies who want to open up in Arkansas.…