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Three-fourths of metro areas add construction jobs from JANUARY 2021 to 2022 Construction employment increased in nearly three out of four U.S. metro areas in January compared to a year ago, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new government employment data. Association officials welcomed the widespread job gains but cautioned that contractors in many areas are having trouble finding enough qualified workers to return to
pre-pandemic levels amid tight labor market conditions. “Construction employment is now increasing in most areas after a rough first year of the pandemic,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “But contractors recently have had more unfilled positions at the end of each month than they have been able to fill.” Job openings in construction totaled
384,000 at the end of January, an increase of 81,000 or nearly 27 percent from January 2021, according to the government’s latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. That figure exceeded the 259,000 employees that construction firms were able to hire in January, implying firms would have added over twice as many workers if
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“Brandon Bellamy describes the shared qualities of the Honey Hunters brand and the City of Gastonia as resilient, fearless, and determined -- all of which resonate with me and who I am as an individual and what Pendulum has had to be to thrive in the sports architecture marketplace for the last 15 years.” Jonathan O’Neil Cole, Pendulum Studio
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