Things are getting better, though it grieves the Koch/Republican Party to say so, because they like bad things to happen to Arkansas and America.

Roby Brock reports on the September unemployment rate, 7.1 in Arkansas versus 7.3 in August and a full point lower than September 2011. The workforce is almost 20,000 people larger than it was a year ago.

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