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Region’s construction employment: stayin’ alive (access required)

by Becky Hurley

Published: June 12,2009

Time posted: 9:43 am

Tags: construction, recession

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It's a staggering - and sobering - statistic. While construction accounts for one fifth of the U.S. work force, the recession has battered the construction industry. The result has been the loss of 990,000 jobs and a climb in unemployment to 18.7 percent for the year ending in April, according to Ken Simonson, chief economist for ...





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