Figure 3 | Arkansas’s Missile Manufacturing Sector Outperforms State in Employment Growth by Q2 2024, Two Years Post-Invasion
Percentage point difference between missile manufacturing sector employment growth in Arkansas and overall employment growth in Arkansas.
Arkansas's missile manufacturing sector undergoes a dip below state performance in employment growth from early 2021 to early 2024, when it begins to outperform the state (about two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine). By mid-2024, the sector is outperforming the state by 19.7 percentage points.
