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Construction Spending Up In February But Slumping Rates Of Hires And Job Openings Suggest Contractors Expect Fewer Near-term Opportunities
Spending Rebounds for Both Residential and Nonresidential Construction, Following Widespread Severe Weather in January; Year-over-Year Growth Continues But More Slowly than Before Construction spending increased 0.7 percent from January to February, even as contractors kept hiring and job opening rates at low levels, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases In 31 States And D.C. From February 2024 To Last Month; 27 States And D.C. Add Jobs Between January And February
Texas and New Mexico Have Highest Number and Percent of 12-Month Gains, While California and Montana Lag; Ohio and West Virginia Top Lists of Monthly Gains; Washington Has the Worst Losses from January to February Construction employment increased in 31 states and the District of Columbia in February from a year earlier, while 27 states plus…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases In 34 States And D.C. From January 2024 To January 2025; 23 States Add Jobs Between December And January
Texas and Idaho Have Highest Number and Percent of 12-Month Gains, While California and Massachusetts Lag; Utah and Idaho Top Lists of Monthly Gains; Florida and Arkansas Have Worst Losses from December to January Construction employment increased in 34 states and the District of Columbia in January from a year earlier, while 23 states added construction…
Read MorePrices For Nonresidential Construction Materials And Services Climb 0.5 Percent In February, With Tariff Impacts Likely To Push Prices Higher
Officials with the Associated General Contractors of America note that Rising Construction Costs will Make it Harder for Firms to Build the Kind of Manufacturing Base the Tariffs are Intended to Create The price of materials and services used in nonresidential construction rose 0.5 percent in February, following an increase of 0.7 percent in January,…
Read MoreConstruction Sector Adds 19,000 Jobs In February; But Workforce And Tariff Worries Threaten To Undermine Future Job Growth In The Industry
Construction Industry Adds Jobs in all Five Nonresidential and Residential Segments as Average Hourly Wages Rise to $36.55 an Increase of 4.0 Percent from a Year Ago Amid Tight Labor Conditions Construction sector employment increased by 19,000 positions in February as all five nonresidential and residential segments of the industry added workers, according to an analysis of…
Read MoreConstruction Outlays Slip In January As Potential Widespread Tariffs Threaten To Push Back Investment Decisions, Upend Costs And Supply Chain
Spending Declines for Manufacturing, Educational, and Multifamily Construction, Outweighing Gains in Single-Family Homebuilding, Infrastructure Categories, and Data Center Projects Construction spending decreased 0.2 percent from December to January with mixed results across residential, nonresidential, and public segments, according to an analysis of a new government report that the Associated General Contractors of America released today.…
Read MorePrices For Nonresidential Construction Materials And Services Rise 0.8 Percent In January As Contractors Brace For Impacts Of New Tariffs
Association Warns that New 25 Percent Tariffs on Steel & Aluminum Are Likely to Drive Up Construction Costs, Delay Project Completions, Urges New Approach to Boosting Domestic Manufacturing The price of materials and services used in nonresidential construction increased 0.8 percent from December to January, the largest jump in costs in the past 12 months,…
Read MoreFeds Begin To Pull Project Labor Agreement Mandates In Wake Of Association-Backed Victory Over Biden’s Unlawful Executive Order
U.S. Military Announces it is Dropping PLA Mandate as Government Promises to Pull Mandate on All Twelve Projects that Were Subject to a Bid Protest Approach AGC of America Helped Craft The Associated General Contractors of America’s chief executive officer, Jeffrey Shoaf, issued the following statement in reaction to the U.S. Department of Defense announcing…
Read MoreConstruction Sector Adds 4,000 Jobs in January; Nonresidential Job Gains Offset Declines in Residential as Average Wages Rose to $30.84 an Hour
Tightening Labor Market Conditions, Amid Changes in Immigration Policy, Continued Under-Investments in Career & Technical Education, Could Undermine Employment Growth as Firms Struggle to Find Workers Construction sector employment increased by 4,000 positions in January as gains in nonresidential construction offset the decline in the residential sector, according to an analysis of new government data the Associated…
Read MoreConstruction Jobs Increase In Two-Thirds Of Metro Areas Between December 2023 & 2024, As Firms Remain Worried Amid Tight Labor Conditions
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Anchorage, Alaska Have Highest Number and Percentage of Job Gains over 12 Months, While New York City and Ithaca, N.Y. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment increased in 244, or 68 percent, of 358 metro areas between December 2023 and December 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of…
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