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Federal Tipoffs Involving Arkansas Newsletter for Tuesday February 27, 2024 ( 2 items )  

BLS - Southwest Region Issues Report Entitled 'Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Arkansas - 2023'
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 26, 2024, entitled "Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Arkansas - 2023": * * * In 2023, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force was 6.2 percent in Arkansas, whic  more

Justice Dept.: Family Dollar Stores LLC Pleads Guilty to Holding Consumer Products Under Insanitary Conditions, Agrees to Pay $41.675 Million in Connection With Rodent-Infested Warehouse
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Feb. 26, 2024: Family Dollar Stores LLC pleaded guilty today to holding food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under insanitary conditions, related to a rodent infestation at the company's West Memphis, Arkansas, distribution center. A criminal information unsealed today in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, charged Family Dollar with one misdemeanor count of causing FDA-regulated products to b  more