Austin construction jobs down 5.8% over last year - The Business Review (Albany):

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In Austin, construction jobs declined 5.8 percent to 45,509 between April 2008 and April 2009. Among the communitieds seeing the largest declines in constructionh employmentwere Tucson, Ariz. with a 29.2 percent decline and Redding, Calif. with a 31.6 percent By comparison, construction employment grew in only 19 of nearlyu 300metro areas, led by an 8 percenty gain in Odessa and a 7.3 percent increase in Baton La. According to the AGC, the construction sectord has seen the largest decline in employment relativde to the rest ofthe economy. While overal l construction unemployment wasat 18.7 percentt in April 2009, the overall unemployment 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 exactly what prompted Congresd and the [Obama] Administration to crafft a stimulus package designe to get Americans back to work as quickluy as possible,” said AGC Chief Ken “Putting these funds to good use as quicklhy as possible is the best way to get Americans back to work and the economg back on track.
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