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WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Despite reports that the U.S. economic stimulus plan has created or saved thousands of jobs, one area that should have been bolstered by the $787 billion recovery plan -- construction -- continues to shed jobs, according to Labor Department data released on Friday. Civil engineering, which encompasses work on roads and sewers, lost 38,900 jobs throughout the summer ... Vinci Construction’s building division has won a £6.4m contract to build a three-storey sixth form teaching block at Harris Girls Academy, in East Dulwich, London. In Baltimore, the 300 block of East 23 1/2 Street is getting patched up in time for winter. One economic stimulus program is paying to insulate 11 rental rowhouses, another is paying for furnaces and a third is covering the cost for reflective roofs to be installed by prison inmates in a job-trai... A construction worker at a Farmington development site has died after being injured on the job and airlifted to an area hospital Wednesday morning. A program designed to get unemployed workers into green construction jobs is coming to Berrien County. WASHINGTON----Today’s unemployment report confirmed that in the U.S. job market, the hardest hit sector continues to be the construction industry, a key driver of our economy. Lorraine Clayton has seen her share of tough job markets, but she has never experienced anything like this. The Scripps Ranch resident was laid off as a project manager at a telecommunications company in May, a casualty of its global downsizing. |
