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The Arkansas Employment Security Division was renamed the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (ADWS) in 2005. [6] [7] In 2019, following a state government reorganization, the Department of Workforce Services became the Division of Workforce Services [8] [9] within the Arkansas Department of Commerce. [10] In late 2020, a slowdown in the ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Arkansas' March unemployment rate was 4.4% down from its 10% pandemic peak in April 2020, while South Carolina's and Montana's unemployment rate was 5.2% and 3.8% respectively in March down from ...
Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
Area codes 870 and 327 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for southern, eastern, and most of northern Arkansas. 870 was created on April 14, 1997, in a split from area code 501, Arkansas's original area code of 1947, and 327 was added as part of an overlay complex in 2024.
With Arkansas being relatively sparsely populated, this arrangement worked well until 1997, when the phone numbers in area code 501 were in danger of being used up. Area code 870 was created in April 1997 to serve the most rural parts of the state (originally specifically not Little Rock metro, Fort Smith or Northwest Arkansas). In January 2002 ...
The Arkansas Juvenile Assessment & Treatment Center (AJATC), [11] located in Bryant in Saline County, near Alexander, [11] [12] [13] is the primary intake and assessment center for juveniles. Originally established as the Girls Industrial School by Act 199 in 1905, the center houses boys and girls.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (in case citations, W.D. Ark.) is a federal court in the Eighth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).