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OSHA Vaccine Mandate Withdrawal Will Ease Sector’s Labor Challenges As Construction Firms Struggle To Reach Pre-Pandemic Job Levels
New York, Louisiana Have Worst Losses Between December & February 2020, While Utah, South Dakota Top Gainers; Florida, Alabama, Rhode Island Have Worst One-Month Losses & Texas, West Virginia Have Best Gains
Materials Prices Soar 20 Percent In 2021 Despite Moderating In December; Most Contractors In Association Survey List Costs As Top Concern In 2022
Construction Officials Say Biden Administration’s Plan to Double Tariffs on Canadian Lumber, Leave Other Ones in Place will Undermine Efforts to Address the Rapid Inflation in Key Materials Costs
Construction Firms Foresee Growing Demand For Most Types Of Projects, As 74 Percent Of Firms Plan To Hire In 2022 Despite Supply Chain And Labor Challenges
New Industry Outlook Shows Contractors Expect a Boost from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and Broad-Based Private-Sector Demand, Except for Retail and Office Construction, If They Can Find Workers and Materials
Construction Adds 22,000 Jobs In December, Jobless Rate Falls To 5 Percent As Ongoing Nonresidential Recovery Offsets Rare Dip In Residential Total
Jobs Figures are Consistent with Relatively Optimistic Outlook the Association will Release on January 12 But Tight Labor Market is Making It Harder for Construction Businesses to Add Even More Staff
Construction Spending In November Increases From October And Year Ago As Private Residential, Nonresidential Pickup Offsets Public Outlay Slide
Association Officials Call on Congress to Promptly Enact Funding to Fulfill Promises for Wide Range of Highway, Transportation and Other Public Sector Projects Included in Recent Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill