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Construction employment edged up by 2,000 jobs between March and April as contractors scrambled to find workers in an increasingly…
Spending on most categories of nonresidential and multifamily construction declined from February to March as contractors struggled to find enough…
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Act (IIJA) included the “Build America, Buy America Act” which applies a domestic…
Construction employment increased in three-fourths of U.S. metro areas between March 2021 and March 2022, according to an analysis by the Associated…
Construction Official Says New Guidance will Undermine New Bipartisan Infrastructure Measure’s Benefits, Adds the Kind of Red Tape that Betrays…
Construction employment exceeded pre-pandemic levels in 32 states in March, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released by the…
Prices of materials and services used in new nonresidential construction jumped more than 21 percent from March 2021 to March…
For more than two years, the U.S. construction industry has been buffeted by unprecedented increases in material costs, supply-chain bottlenecks,…
Construction employment increased from February 2020—the month before the coronavirus pandemic—to February 2022 in nearly three-fifths of U.S. metro areas,…
Construction employment climbed by 19,000 jobs between February and March, while spending on construction projects rose for the 12th month…