Arkansas Department of Workforce Services

Unemployment numbers are decreasing in Arkansas after reaching record numbers in the early months of the pandemic. However, state officials say they are seeing increasing amounts of unemployment insurance fraud. Following the declaration of an emergency due to COVID-19, unemployment …

More than 110,000 unemployment insurance applications have been received by the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (ADWS), and the number only looks to go up. Unemployment claims have skyrocketed in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic. The state had been …

State officials announced that unemployed Arkansans who have applied for state benefits will begin receiving an extra $600 weekly payment by mid-week. More than 100,000 Arkansans may begin receiving the payment as soon as the end of the week.  Approximately …

Arkansas recently set a new record low for unemployment. The unemployment rate for July was 3.4 %, breaking the previous record of 3.5% last month. There are 19,200 more jobs in our state than this time last year. But the story of …

Northwest Arkansas employers will have the opportunity this month to learn how apprenticeship can help their business grow and develop talent. The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (ADWS) will host a forum on apprenticeship for local employers at The Jones …

On Thursday, we received news that a district judge in Washington, D.C., had struck down the work requirement in Arkansas Works Medicaid Program. Arkansas’s work requirement has put us on the leading edge nationally. We were the first state to …

Arkansas beat the national unemployment average during the last month of 2018. By Tyler Hale Unemployment in Arkansas was lower than the national average in December 2018, the most recent month for which employment is available. Arkansas reported a seasonally …

The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.8 percent in June. The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services reported that the civilian labor force has declined by 1,348 and the U.S. jobless rate has risen two-tenths a percentage point, from 3.8 …

By Caleb Talley  Arkansas is one of several states across the nation hoping to cut back on entitlement spending by implementing drug screening programs for welfare recipients and new applicants. In 2015, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers passed a …

Arkansas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined one-tenth of a percentage point, from 5.2 percent in September to 5.1 percent in October, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics data released today, Nov. 20, by the Arkansas Department …