The U.S. construction industry ended 2024 on firmer footing, however skilled trades shortages were still a challenge, a ...

The AGC lauded the Defense Department’s move to stop the use of project labor agreements and said it anticipates other ...

In December 2024, the national, not seasonally adjusted construction unemployment rate was 5.2%, up 0.8% from December 2023, ...

The Department of Defense has rolled back the Project Labor Agreement Mandate Policy executive order put into effect by ...

The number of open jobs for the overall economy decreased from 8.16 million in November to 7.6 million in December. This is ...

Building and specialty trade contractors added jobs in January, but highway and civil firms reported a decline.

Nationally, foreign-born workers, regardless of legal status, fill an estimated 30% of trade jobs like carpentry, plastering, ...

On January 24, 2025, the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) announced that the construction industry urgently needs to hire 439,000 workers ...

Rhode Island had the largest year-over-year increase in its NSA estimated construction unemployment rate (up 4%) among the ...

Non-residential construction will grow very slowly in 2025. Data centers and chip fabs will grow, but other sub-sectors will ...

Derrik lost both his legs in June 2023, the summer after his sophomore year of high school, while working for a large ...

Thousands of North Korean workers have been sent to work in construction in Russia to alleviate a labor shortage despite ...