For the first five months of the year, Arkansas's unemployment rate held steady below 8%.  Not so anymore.  The June jobs report for Arkansas shows the number of unemployed in the Natural State has risen to 8.1%, a 24-year high. 

This mirrors the trend with the national numbers.  It's not a good sign.   

If you take the wrong direction, our numbers go the wrong direction.  Let's change course, Mr. President.