Sentences with phrase «high construction unemployment»

A time of low real interest rates, low materials prices, and high construction unemployment is the ideal moment for a large public investment program.

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Slenker noted that unemployment across the Buffalo Niagara region tends to be highest in January and February because holiday - related seasonal jobs end, business tends to slump at bars and restaurants after the end - of - the - year rush and construction work tends to be at its low point for the year.

The Rubio aide was arguing for increasing the number of low - skill guest workers in the construction industry despite high unemployment among low - skill Americans and noncitizen residents.

The higher taxes that some lawmakers want to impose on construction companies to pay for the state's unemployment insurance system could be a lot worse.

But members of the industry charged with improving participation rates say the high unemployment rate in construction makes...

The project will create thousands of good paying jobs for the safest, most highly trained workers of the building trades at a time when construction workers have an unemployment rate higher than the national average.

Communities put the capital to work, creating nearly 11,000 permanent jobs and almost 27,000 construction jobs in areas with high unemployment and poverty.

But even during the severe housing downturn and a period of high unemployment the construction labor force continued to recruit new immigrants to partially replace native and foreign born workers leaving the industry.