Talk Business & Politics Staff

Arkansas’ fiscal year-to-date (July 2024-September 2024) tax revenue is down 2.6% compared with the same period in the previous fiscal year.

The state’s July jobless rate was 3.3%, unchanged compared to June and slightly above the 3.2% in July 2023.

Arkansas tax revenue totaled more than $8.7 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, with the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) reporting Tuesday (July 2) an annual revenue surplus of $698.4 million.

$93.67 million from the EPA's Solar for All grant program will fund residential solar benefitting low-income and disadvantaged communities in Arkansas.

Pryor served in both houses of Congress and as Arkansas' governor.

Arkansas’ March jobless rate of 3.5% was down from 3.6% in February, but was higher than the 2.8% in March 2023.

The ACTIVE Program aims to give socially and economically disadvantaged innovators in healthcare and technology opportunities to develop businesses.

CommonSpirit Health and Morehouse School of Medicine named CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs as one of seven sites that will address a shortage of diverse clinicians and the need for more equitable health care.

A more than 24% year-over-year increase in Arkansans without jobs and slower pace of job growth helped pushed the state’s February jobless rate to 3.6%.

Arkansas’ jobless rate rose to 3.7% in January from 3.4% in January 2023 even with year-over-year gains in Education and Health Services and the Construction sectors.