{"id":1004,"date":"2012-05-07T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/07\/us-construction-jobless-rate-ebbs\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:18:00","slug":"us-construction-jobless-rate-ebbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/us-construction-jobless-rate-ebbs.html","title":{"rendered":"US Construction Jobless Rate Ebbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\">Even though the construction industry continued to lose jobs in April (the month saw another loss of 2,000 construction industry related jobs), the construction industry unemployment rate saw a drop of nearly three percent (3%).&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_CWSCJOSCJg\/T6fLIN8j0MI\/AAAAAAAAAI8\/t5FpyJK8ZDE\/s1600\/construction+jobs+may+2012.bmp\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Construction Industry Unemployment Numbers April 2012\" border=\"0\" height=\"174\" mea=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_CWSCJOSCJg\/T6fLIN8j0MI\/AAAAAAAAAI8\/t5FpyJK8ZDE\/s320\/construction+jobs+may+2012.bmp\" title=\"Construction Industry Unemployment Numbers April 2012\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\"><\/div>\n<p>The United States Department of Labor&#8217;s latest employment report indicated that the hardest hit area in the construction industry in April was &#8220;non-residential specialty trade contracting,&#8221; which saw a decline of approximately 8,400 jobs. Strangely, however, despite general residential construction losing more jobs, residential specialty trade contractor employment&nbsp;increased by 6,300 jobs. Civil and heavy industry construction saw employment increases of&nbsp;3,300.<\/p>\n<p>In general, construction employment numbers are up&nbsp;1.1%, or 63,000 jobs, when compared&nbsp;year over year. Unemployment dropped a staggering 3% in the construction industry, from 17.2 percent in March to 14.5 percent in April, but this could be attributable to construction workers dropping out of the labor market altogether, or finding another career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the construction industry continued to lose jobs in April (the month saw another loss of 2,000 construction industry related jobs), the construction industry unemployment rate saw a drop of nearly three percent (3%).&nbsp; The United States Department of Labor&#8217;s latest employment report indicated that the hardest hit area in the construction industry in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1762,1764,1763],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US Construction Jobless Rate Ebbs - 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