Migration. The Gullah and Geechee culture on the Sea Islands of Georgia has retained ethnic traditions from West Africa since the mid-1700s.nthropologists and historians speculate but have not confirmed that the term Gullah âdeemed the cultural name of the islandersâderived from any one of several African ethnicities or specific locations in Angola and on the Windward Coast.
According to 2008 U.S. Census data, the state of Arkansas and local governments in the state employed a total of 190,155 people. Of those employees, 155,216 were full-time employees receiving net wages of $478,078,745 per month and 34,939 were part-time employees paid $24,804,627 per month.
LITTLE ROCK (KTHV) â The new year means a pay bump for minimum wage employees across the state. In Arkansas, the minimum wage is set to increase on Sunday. Itâs a more hefty increase than last year. Thatâs good news for workers, but it means business owners have to figure out how to pay it. Come January, minimum wage employees will get a $1 an hour pay raise. âIt began raising by 50 cents each January 1,â said Arkansas Department of Laborâs public relation officer, Rosalyn Miller. âThis will be the final increment on January 1, 2017. It will be $8.50.â.