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Construction Employment Rises In 45 States & D.C. From August 2022 To August 2023, While 32 States & D.C. Add Employees Between July & August
Tue, 09/19/2023 – 11:40 Texas and Wyoming Top Lists of Year-over-Year Gains, While Missouri, North Dakota Record the Worst Losses; California and Wyoming Lead in Monthly Job Increases, While Tennessee Experiences Largest Declines Construction employment increased in 45 states and the District of Columbia in August from a year earlier, while 32 states and D.C. added…
Read MoreProducer Price Index For Construction Materials And Services Rises 1.1 Percent In August, Outpacing 0.2 Increase In Contractors’ Bid Prices
Thu, 09/14/2023 – 12:37 Monthly Jump in Input Costs is Driven by Near-Record 34.6 Percent Leap in Diesel Fuel Price Index; Contractors Report Major Staffing Challenges in Association’s Latest Survey of Hiring Conditions The price of materials and services used in nonresidential construction increased 1.1 percent from July to August, driven by an extreme jump in…
Read MoreNew Survey Shows Significant Flaws In Nation’s Approach To Preparing Workers For Construction Careers And How That Hurts The Economy
Wed, 09/06/2023 – 12:00 88 Percent of Construction Firms Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects as Firms Boost Pay, Embrace AI to Cope with Labor Shortages Few candidates have the basic skills needed to work in high-paying construction careers, forcing short-staffed contractors to find new…
Read MoreConstruction Sector Adds 22,000 Employees In August, While Spending Increases In July Despite Downturn In Major Infrastructure Categories
Fri, 09/01/2023 – 12:23 Construction Employment Reaches 7,993,000 amid Strong Demand for Project, Firms Boost Pay to $34.40 an Hour as They Try to Attract a Limited Pool of Qualified Workers with Sector’s Unemployment at 3.9% The construction industry added 22,000 jobs in August, while total construction spending rose 0.7 percent in July, despite a…
Read MoreFlorida builders face down Idalia
As residents and businesses boarded up structures, contractors tied down materials and prepared for flood mitigation. Hurricane Idalia began to whip across Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday morning. The National Hurricane Center said the eye of the storm reached Category 4 status with 130 mph winds when it made landfall in Taylor County, the Orlando Sentinel reported.…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases In 226 Of 358 Metro Areas Between July 2022 And July 2023 But Firms Still Have 378,000 Open Positions
Wed, 08/30/2023 – 10:23 Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas, Yuba City, Calif., and Corvallis, Ore. Lead the Nation in Employment Increases; Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, Fla. and Kankakee, Ill. Have the Largest Number and Percent of Job Losses Construction employment increased in 226 of 358 metro areas between July 2022 and July 2023, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases in 45 States and D.C. From July 2022 to July 2023, While 27 States and D.C. Add Employees in Latest Month
Fri, 08/18/2023 – 12:37 Texas and Arkansas Top Lists of Year-over-Year Gains, While Colorado, North Dakota Record the Worst Losses; Texas and Nebraska Lead in Monthly Job Increases, While Washington and Maine Experience Largest Declines Construction employment increased in 45 states and the District of Columbia in July from a year earlier, while 27 states added…
Read MoreBid Prices Fall 1.4 Percent as Construction Materials and Services Prices Increase 0.2 Percent in July
Fri, 08/11/2023 – 12:22 Construction Material Prices Remain Mostly Flat in the Month of July; Buy America Rules Remain an Ongoing Challenge for Firms as They Try to Find Materials that Comply The price of materials and services used in nonresidential construction inched up 0.2 percent from June to July, while a government index that…
Read MoreMassive New Department of Labor Davis-Bacon Rule Misses the Mark to Modernize Regulations
Tue, 08/08/2023 – 11:03 Department of Labor Issues Final Rule on the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Which Covers Labor Standards That Apply to Federal and Federally Assisted Construction Projects Today’s announcement makes some improvements but critically misses an opportunity to improve the wage determination process and further burdens overregulated construction contractors building and upgrading the…
Read MoreConstruction Firms Add 19,000 Jobs In July As Sector’s Unemployment Level Hits 3.9 Percent And Average Sector Pay Increases To $34.24 Per Hour
Fri, 08/04/2023 – 11:43 Construction Employment Reaches 7,791,000 in July as Data Shows Firms Can’t Find Enough Workers to Replace Retiring Workers, Association Officials Call for New Investments in Construction Education The construction industry added 19,000 jobs in July even as the sector’s unemployment rate increased, according to an analysis of new government data the Associated General…
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