CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inflation has eased across the Americas, causing construction cost increases to drop below their 5- and 10-year averages, but the sector still faces uncertainties due to new ...

The construction industry added 17,000 net jobs in December, part of what was a stronger-than-expected jobs report released late last week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Labor has been ...

Construction’s chronic labor shortage faces a hit from President Trump’s immigration crackdown, with pain rippling from small builders to big firms. President Trump’s fortune rose from building glitzy ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reduced by 0.5% its previously reported number of new jobs from March 2023 to March 2024, according to a newly released update. The revise, in the agency's Current ...

Deportations and inflation are worsening a labor shortage that was already running rampant through the construction industry, hindering projects and adding to an already significant affordable housing ...

Even with recent and growing public support for critically necessary affordable housing in California, developers are finding it difficult to make these projects pencil. They are forced to contend ...

The U.S. General Services Administration—a major federal government property, real estate and procurement manager—will allow its Public Buildings Service to have project labor agreements on agency-run ...

Boston’s construction industry has faced a shortage of labor even as development activity has slowed over the last two years. Now, with interest rates coming down and the state pouring billions into ...