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U.S. jobless claims fall to five-year low
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States fell to a five-year low in mid-January, a sign of an improving labor market, the Wall Street Journal reported. The week ending January 19, initial jobless claims decreased by 5,000 to a seasonally, adjusted 330,000—the lowest it’s been since January 2008. The four-week moving average […]
January 25, 2013
Construction Equipment
How will you retain employees after the recession?
With an unemployment rate currently hovering near 12 percent, small- and mid-size construction company owners probably haven’t worried much about staffing their crews. There’s always someone looking for work. There’s some interesting numbers out lately, though. People in jobs from the top down are looking forward to the end of the recession, not only because […]
September 11, 2012
Workforce
June construction unemployment rate lowest since 2008, but skilled-labor shortage may be looming
Though the unemployment rate among construction workers in June dropped to its lowest rate since 2008, one economist says that's not necessarily good news.
July 6, 2012
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
Within a handful of bright, or at least not gloomy, spots there may be opportunities for transportation agencies and highway and bridge contractors to be pro-active in their fight against the agonizingly slow recession climb-out.
January 12, 2012
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Construction unemployment falls to 17.3 percent
Despite being in the height of the construction season, the nation’s nonresidential building construction sector shed 1,800 jobs in July, according to the August 6 employment report by the Department of Labor. July’s construction unemployment rate declined to 17.3 percent, down from 18.2 percent last year. Since July 2009, 38,700 nonresidential construction jobs, or 5.4 […]
August 9, 2010
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The Department of Labor: 45,000 jobs added in the first 3 months of 2010
Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in March, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on April 2. Temporary help services and health care continued to add jobs over the month. Employment in federal government also rose, reflecting the hiring of temporary workers for Census 2010. Employment […]
April 8, 2010
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Unemployment rates up from January to February in 27 states, down in seven states
Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates increased from January to February in 27 states, decreased in seven states and the District of Columbia, and remained unchanged in 16 states, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on March 26, according to the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) Data DIGest report. Compared to February 2009, jobless rates […]
March 30, 2010
Roadbuilding
2009 a difficult year but ‘devastating’ to the construction industry
It’s no secret that it’s rough out there. It’s been that way for a while now. But in the construction industry, we’ve been one of the hardest hit job sectors. While only 5 percent of the U.S. workforce, construction workers shouldered 20 percent of non-farm layoffs last year, Stephen E. Sandherr said in the Associated […]
January 21, 2010
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Obama expects unemployment to continue to rise
Fantastic. I’ve now learned that not only is the United States in the most debt it has ever been in — $1 trillion, with a possible $2 million deficit by later this year — but unemployment is expected to continue to rise. I thought the idea of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus plan was to get […]
January 15, 2010
Business
The construction industry says, ‘We’re not gonna take it!’
At Chicago’s Soldier Field Today (Home of the Chicago Bears football team) local business leaders, laborers and construction workers rallied in a caravan of construction equipment to urge the federal government to stop job loss and to move quickly on the reauthorization of SAFETEA-LU. A caravan of idle construction equipment including a motor grader, rough terrain […]
January 11, 2010
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March jobless numbers grim for construction workers
Nobody is surprised by this, but the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the American economy lost another 663,000 jobs in March, bringing the total unemployment rate to 8.5 percent. Construction has been the hardest hit industry during this recession with an unemployment rate that now stands at 21.1 percent (not seasonally adjusted). […]
January 10, 2010
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