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94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation’s failure to invest in construction workforce education and training programs is having a real, measurable impact on the country’s ability to build infrastructure…

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Anchorage, Alaska Have Highest Number and Percentage  of Year-over-Year Job Gains, While New York City and Duluth, Minn.-Wis. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment rose in 232, or 65 percent, of 358 metro areas between July 2023 and July 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new…

Florida and Alaska Top Lists of Numerical and Percentage 12-Month Gains, While New York and Maine Lag; Florida and Tennessee Post Highest Monthly Increases, While New York and Arkansas Have Worst Losses Construction employment increased in 39 states in July from a year earlier, while 29 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between…

Construction Firms Add 25,000 Jobs In July With Gains In All Subsectors As Pay Rises Faster Than Other Industries, Unemployment Rate Holds Steady Average Construction Pay Hits $35.77 an Hour as Firms Work to Hire Enough People to Keep Pace with Demand, Construction Officials Urge Public Officials to Boost Support for Workforce Education The construction…

Construction Spending Slides 0.3 Percent In June As Drop In Homebuilding And Major Public Segments Outweighs Selected Nonresidential Gains Construction Spending Dropped to a Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate of$2.148 trillion in June as Construction Officials Urge Biden Administration to Ease Regulatory Barriers for Infrastructure Projects Construction spending slid 0.3 percent from May to June as…

Tue, 07/30/2024 – 11:45 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Lawton, Okla. Experience Highest Number and Percentage  of Year-over-Year Job Gains, While New York City and Duluth, Minn.-Wis. Have Worst Job Losses Construction employment rose in 215, or 60 percent, of 358 metro areas between June 2023 and June 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors…

Fri, 07/19/2024 – 13:01 Texas and Alaska Top Lists of Numerical and Percentage Year-over-Year Gains, While New York and D.C. Lag; Texas, Nevada Lead in Number and Percent of Monthly Gains, While New York and Vermont Have Worst Losses Construction employment increased in 35 states in June from a year earlier, while 29 states added construction…

Fri, 07/05/2024 – 10:36 Most of the Construction Gains Occurred in the Nonresidential Construction Sector While Firms Now Pay Workers Nearly 19 Percent More Compared to the Average Job as they Struggle to Recruit New People The construction sector added 27,000 jobs in June while its unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent, its lowest rate…

Tue, 07/02/2024 – 13:00 Construction Association Officials Note that New Proposal, However, Fails to Address Regional Weather Variations, Should Outline Steps Workers Must Take to Protect Themselves from Heat Exposure The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Jeffrey D. Shoaf, released the following statement in response to the release of a…

Tue, 07/02/2024 – 11:44 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Fairbanks, Alaska Top Lists of Year-over-Year Job Gains, While Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, Colo. and Augusta-Richmond County, Ga.-S.C. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment increased in 225, or 63 percent, of 358 metro areas between May 2023 and May 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America…