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Construction Spending Edges Down By 0.1 Percent In July As Declines In Nonresidential And Multifamily Projects Top Growth In Public Outlays Association Survey Finds Tariffs, Labor Shortages and Other Challenges Have Caused Owners to Cancel, Defer, or Shrink Project Starts as Construction Officials Push for Policy Certainty & Workforce Support Spending on projects underway in…

Construction Workforce Shortages Are Leading Cause Of Project Delays As Immigration Enforcement Affects Nearly 1/3 Of Firms 92 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, As 45 Percent of Firms Say Labor Shortages are Causing Project Delays, New Nationwide Industry Survey Finds Construction workforce shortages are the leading cause…

Barely Half Of Metro Areas Add Construction Jobs From July 2024 To July 2025; Association To Unveil Survey Finding Firms Struggle To Fill Openings Arlington-Alexandria-Reston, Va.-W.Va. and Las Cruces, N.M. Again Lead in Number and Percentage of Yearly Job Gains, While Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. and Niles, Mich. Have Worst Declines   Just 184, or 51…

Texas and New Mexico Have Highest 12-Month Gains, While California and New Jersey Have the Worst Yearly Losses; Oregon and Colorado Top Monthly Gainers; California & Wyoming Have the Worst Monthly Declines Construction employment increased in 31 states and the District of Columbia in July from a year earlier, while 22 states added construction jobs…

Largest Increase in Two and a Half Years Comes as Construction Officials Urge Administration to Finalize Negotiations with Key Trading Partners to Ease Punitive Tariffs Levels that Went into Effect This Year The producer price index for materials and services used in nonresidential construction rose 0.5 percent in July and 2.6 percent from July 2024,…

Year-over-Year Gains in Employment Slow Sharply from Previous 12 Months; Private Residential and Nonresidential Outlays Decline from May and from June 2024, Offsetting Small Gain in Public Spending Construction employment edged higher by 2,000 jobs in July, as spending on projects underway in June decreased 0.4 percent from May, according to an analysis of two new government…

Arlington-Alexandria-Reston, Va.-W.Va. and Las Cruces, N.M. Again Lead in Number and Percentage of Yearly Job Gains, While Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. and Niles, Mich. Have Worst Declines Exactly half of the nation’s metro areas added construction jobs between June 2024 and June 2025, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new government employment data. Association officials noted that…

CONSTRUCTION JOBS DECLINE IN 26 STATES BETWEEN MAY AND LAST MONTH; SECTOR’S EMPLOYMENT INCREASES IN 33 STATES AND D.C. FROM A YEAR AGO Texas and South Dakota Experience Worst One-Month Declines, While California and Montana Top Lists of Gains; Texas and New Mexico Have Highest Number and Percent of 12-Month Gains, While Washington Has Worst…

Steel and Concrete Prices Remain Elevated While Most Other Materials Stay Flat; AGC Warns That Tariff Pressures Could Reignite Cost Volatility, Undermine Benefits of New Tax and Regulatory Efforts The producer price index for materials and services used in nonresidential construction rose 0.2 percent in June and 2.3 percent from June 2024, the largest 12-month…

Nonresidential Sector Continues Steady Employment Gains Even as Residential and Heavy Civil Construction Falls; As the Construction Unemployment Rate Falls to Near Historic Low of 3.4 Percent Construction sector employment increased by 15,000 positions in June as rising wages enabled the industry to add workers more rapidly than other sectors, according to an analysis of new government…