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The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services also has partnered with the Retail Institute, in hopes of helping some of those who have recently become unemployed.

Nasdaq: TIERE), a leading provider of transaction processing and packaged software and systems integration solutions for public sector clients, today announced that it has contracted with the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (ADWS) to upgrade and enhance the existing ADWS interactive voice response (IVR) system with natural language speech recognition, and to develop a telephone unemployment insurance (UI) initial claims application.

Health care, as reflected by this year's list and a recent report by the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services, was a bright spot in the state's anemic job market, weakened from losing so many jobs in the last few months.

The actual number of manufacturing jobs the state lost last year--and there is every indication it will be a loss--won't be confirmed until May, when the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services will have the preliminary numbers for its annual state labor force statistics report.

In its news release on the announcement of the initiative, the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services said U.

9 million grant to the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services last week to prepare Arkansas workers for automotive and advanced manufacturing careers.

8 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from May, according to a report last week by the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services.