Sentences with phrase «construction jobs across the country»

Dunning recently cautioned that Ottawa's attempts to cool Toronto and Vancouver's overheated housing markets, by making it tougher for first - time buyers to qualify for financing, is likely to result in a 25 to 30 per cent decline in housing starts by 2015 and 150,000 fewer construction jobs across the country.

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Obama, in recent months, has further renewed his call for an infrastructure bill that could boost construction and engineering jobs across the country.

Because of congressional inaction, the FAA has been forced to issue some 200 stop - work orders — and turn 70,000 construction workers away from their jobs at airports across the country.

During the debate over the Keystone project, the oil industry rolled out a series of studies claiming that pipeline construction would create 20,000 temporary jobs in the United States and that lower oil prices (they didn't say exactly how much lower) resulting from the new crude supplies would create as many as 250,000 more jobs across the country over the long term.

But it may also raise the cost of doing business across the country, decrease the amount of space firms lease and cut the number of jobs in construction and ancillary industries, said Jim Costello, senior strategist for Torto Wheaton Research, a division of CB Richard Ellis.