Did You Know?
Billy Bob Thornton used Benton and Saline County as backdrops for his movie Slingblade in 1996.
Arkansas Workforce
The Metro Little Rock Alliance boasts an available workforce to support key industry clusters of Arkansas industries including:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Biotechnology
- Financial Services
- Food Processing
- Healthcare
- Logistics and Distribution
- Software/Information Technology/Telecommunications
- Tourism/Entertainment/Conventions/Retirement
- Non-Profit
Our diverse workforce ranges from low-skilled farm and production workers to technically-skilled production and high tech information technology employees. This available Arkansas workforce is an important contributor to Arkansas having the lowest cost of doing business of any state in the South, according to Business Facilities magazine
The Metro Little Rock region's public and private sector leadership focuses on providing continuous workforce education and training through universities, community colleges and trade-schools.