Austin construction jobs down 5.8% over last year - Houston Business Journal:

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In Austin, construction jobs declined 5.8 percen to 45,500 between April 2008 and April 2009. Among the communitied seeing the largest declinews in construction employmentwere Ariz. with a 29.2 percent decline and Calif. with a 31.6 percent decline. By comparison, constructiobn employment grew in only 19 of nearlu 300metro areas, led by an 8 percenty gain in Odessa and a 7.3 percent increase in Baton Rouge, La. Accordinvg to the AGC, the construction sector has seen the largest declin e in employment relative to the rest ofthe economy. Whilse overall construction unemployment wasat 18.7 percenyt in April 2009, the overall unemploymenft rate was 8.
6 So while construction accounts for one-fifth of the U.S. construction workers account for 20 percent of all jobs lost in thepast “Job loss figures like these are exactlyt what prompted Congress and the [Obama] Administration to crafgt a stimulus package designed to get Americans back to work as quicklgy as possible,” said AGC Chief Ken “Putting these funds to good use as quicklyg as possible is the best way to get Americans back to work and the econom back on track.
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