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Senate unlikely to adopt ID card for legal worker verification due to high costs

Senate unlikely to adopt ID card for legal worker...

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Mar 13, 2013

Senators working on an immigration bill are not likely to adopt a high-tech ID card for workers because of costs, ...

Opinion: Jeb Bush’s immigration solution “elegantly simple”

Opinion: Jeb Bush’s immigration solution...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 11, 2013

Jeb Bush One might have known that the best idea to come forth on immigration in decades is now being ...

Senate bill would create incentives for private transportation investment

Senate bill would create incentives for private...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 05, 2013

As the federal government continues to search for ways to grapple with the country's slowly crumbling infrastructure, two Senators have ...

Undocumented workers make up half of Texas’ construction workforce

Undocumented workers make up half of Texas’...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Feb 26, 2013

A report released Thursday alleges that half of the construction workers in Texas are undocumented, aka illegal aliens. Why is nobody ...

Gastrobus food truck in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com

Opinion: Food trucks an American and construction...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Feb 12, 2013

Gastrobus food truck in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com I couldn’t help but notice an ugly irony ...

States begin new projects rather than repairing, maintaining existing infrastructure

States begin new projects rather than repairing,...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 04, 2013

The main reason the U.S. can't afford to maintain its existing roads and bridges? States keep building new ones, reports ...

Opinion: Bill extensions becoming the norm for this Congress

Opinion: Bill extensions becoming the norm for this...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Jan 21, 2013

I had to laugh a little, sadly, last week when I read that Congress couldn't get a farm bill passed. ...

$1 trillion spending gap for U.S. infrastructure holds real consequences

$1 trillion spending gap for U.S. infrastructure holds...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 17, 2013

"Infrastructure is the most important thing you never think about," Jim Hoecker, the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory ...

Construction job growth means hope for U.S. economy

Construction job growth means hope for U.S. economy

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 07, 2013

A new report from the Washington Post calls the construction industry one of the "bright spots" in the recovering labor ...

Defense bill adds nearly $500 million in North Carolina military construction projects

Defense bill adds nearly $500 million in North Carolina...

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Jan 04, 2013

President Barack Obama signed into effect a $633 billion defense bill the night of January 2, the Associated Press reported. Though ...

Opinion: Legalized marijuana bad for construction and society

Opinion: Legalized marijuana bad for construction and...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Jan 04, 2013

Now that Colorado and Washington State have legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, the construction industry will be forced ...

Congress passes fiscal cliff deal

Congress passes fiscal cliff deal

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 02, 2013

With negotiations extended to the absolute deadline, Congress passed a deal on New Year's Day that will that will prevent ...

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