NEWS IN BRIEF
Posted: July 30, 2009 at 4:15 a.m.
NW Arkansas metro jobless rate hits 6.1% The unemployment rate in the Fayetteville-Rogers-Springdale metropolitan area was 6.1 percent in June, the first time in 19 years of records that it has exceeded 6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday. The area had an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent in May.
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