Arkansas manufacturing jobs down; plants down.Arkansas Arkansas, river, United States Arkansas (ärkăn`zəs, är`kənsô'), river, c.1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., central Colo. has lost 7,515 (3 percent) manufacturing jobs and 104 plants since October October: see month. 2005, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the 2007 Arkansas Manufacturers Register, a manufacturers' directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. of Evanston, Ill. The state has lost 25,269 jobs or 9.7 percent of its manufacturing employment since October 2002, despite a net gain of 235 plants, according to the report. "Even though manufacturing activity is at record highs, industrial employment is stagnating," said Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Dubin, president of Manufacturers' News. "Automation and technology are partially to blame; instead of four low-skilled workers on an assembly line, you might have one worker controlling the manufacturing process by entering codes into a computer." Manufacturers' News said Arkansas now has 4,344 manufacturing companies employing 235,686 workers. MNI'S survey profiles both large and small Arkansas manufacturers, including startup companies The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. with just a few employees. Arkansas ranks second in the southwest region by number of manufacturing jobs, accounting for 12 percent of the region's industrial employment. Little Rock ranks among the top manufacturing cities in the Southwest with 326 plants and 15,773 jobs listed in the 2007 edition. The food sector is Arkansas's top industrial employer, with poultry poultry, domesticated fowl kept primarily for meat and eggs; including birds of the order Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant, quail, and peacock; and natatorial (swimming) birds, e.g., the duck and goose. slaughtering making up 15 percent of the state's manufacturing employment or 33,422 jobs, the report said. More on the report is available at www.mnileads.com. |
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