U.S., July 8 -- Employment in construction increased by 158,000 during the last month, but infrastructure jobs have shrunk.
Analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America released the data on July 2nd. Association officials have said that more infrastructure job losses are expected unless the federal government increase budgets for public works such as roads.
The associations's Chief Economist, Ken Simonson, said: "The gain in construction employment in June was concentrated in homebuilding, with scattered increases in nonresidential building, while heavy and civil engineering construction employment-the category that includes many highway and other infrastructure workers-shrank by nearly 10,000 jobs."
He then went on to say: ...