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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

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 Biggest and Steepest Losses

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

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 on Time

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