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78 Percent Of Voters Across The Country Want Congress To Pass A New Federal Highway, Bridge And Transit Funding Bill Before The Current Law Expires New National and 50-State Polling Shows More than Three-Quarters of Voters Are More Likely to Support a Member of Congress Who Backs the Bill and 68 Percent Back Federal EV…

Construction Employment Increases By 11,000 In June And 64,000 Over 12 Months; Industry Association Warns Gains May Fade Absent New Highway Funding Bill Industry Employment and Wages Continue to Rise Faster Than Overall Labor Market as Association is Set to Release, Later Today, New National Polling Showing Broad, Bipartisan Support for a New Highway Bill…

AGC Urges Congress To Pass New Highway And Transit Bill By September As Construction Spending Declines 1.5 Percent Contracting Officials Warn That Failure to Renew Highway and Transit Funding Will Undercut One of the Economy’s Strongest Drivers in Public Infrastructure Spending Construction spending edged up 0.1 percent in May from the previous month but declined…

Construction Jobs Increase In Less Than Half Of Metro Areas From May 2025 To May 2026 Amid Rising Costs, Ebbing Demand And Threats To Infrastructure Work Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, Texas and Baton Rouge, La. Experience Largest Number and Percentage of Job Gains Over Latest 12 Months; Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. and Lawton, Okla. Have Worst Job Losses…

BIDEN-ERA EFFORT TO EXPAND DAVIS-BACON RULES BEYOND CONSTRUCTION VACATED BY FEDERAL COURT AFTER AGC AND LABOR DEPARTMENT RESOLVE SUIT Federal Officials Concede that Key Parts of the 2023 Rule Exceeded Statutory Authority and Were Arbitrary & Capricious in Response to a Lawsuit Filed by the Associated General Contractors of America & Others   The Biden…

Construction Employment Increases In 30 States And D.C. From May 2025 To May 2026; 23 States And D.C. Add Construction Jobs From April To May  Texas and Wisconsin Have the Largest Number and Percent of 12-Month Increases, While California and New Mexico Lag; Texas and Idaho Top Monthly Gainers, While Massachusetts and Montana Have the…

PRICES FOR CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS CLIMB AT HIGHEST RATE SINCE PANDEMIC, DRIVEN BY STEEP COST INCREASES FOR FUEL, ALUMINUM, COPPER AND DELIVERIES Construction Association Officials Warn that Prices for the Materials Contractors Need to Build Projects are Rising Far Faster than What Firms are Able to Charge to Build Those Projects   The producer price index…

Construction Employment Increases By 17,000 In May As Both Nonresidential And Residential Firms Add Jobs; Hourly Pay Rises By 5.0 Percent For The Year Industry Employment and Wage Gains Continue to Outpace Overall Labor Market But Future Job Growth May Stall from Growing Community Backlash to Data Centers, Risk Congress Won’t Pass New Highway Bill…

Construction Jobs Increase In Majority Of Metro Areas From April 2025 To April 2026 Amid Growing Data Center Pushback And Need For Highway Bill Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, Texas and Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill. Lead in Job Gains Over 12 Months; Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. and Lawton, Okla. Have Worst Job Losses   Construction employment increased in 192, or 53 percent,…

Construction Spending Rises 0.9 Percent Annually In April; Association Urges Officials To Renew Highway And Transit Funding By September Contracting Officials Cite Vital Role of Highway Spending in Supporting Economic Growth Nationwide As They Note Total Nonresidential Construction Spending Has Risen Only When Road Projects Increase   Construction spending increased 0.4 percent from March to April…