These certainly aren’t the boom times of a decade ago, but Northwest Arkansas is a pretty good place to be as the nation struggles to recover from the ongoing recession. A report released June 27 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows regional workforce numbers for May were up more than 8,000 jobs over [...]
One of the most trusted economic indica- tors is signaling that the ongoing recession is waning — at least in Northwest Arkansas. As of April, unemployment in a four-county area — Benton, Madison and Washington counties in Northwest Arkansas and McDonald County in south- west Missouri — had dipped to 5.8 percent, compared with 7.6 [...]
When the economy tanked in 2008, the job market became more competitive than ever, inspiring many adults to return to school to sharpen their job skills or acquire new ones. Brooke McNeely Galligan of Fayetteville was laid off from her job as a photojournalist and started her own freelance business, Brooke McNeely Photography. Although she [...]
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