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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More

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Momentum to Pass Health Care Reform Builds – Action Needed
Democratic leaders are finalizing health care reform legislation this week in a two step process. First the House will pass the Senate bill complete with payoffs to Nebraska, Louisiana and Florida. The bill also includes the Merkley Amendment that singles out construction by repealing the small… Read More
March 11, 2010
Senate Begins Debate on FAA Bill
On Wednesday the Senate agreed on a motion to proceed to the long-delayed FAA reauthorization bill.  It was unclear whether the Senate would actually be able to take up the bill due to a controversial provision in the House-passed version that would make it easier for certain FedEx workers to… Read More
March 11, 2010
Obama Administration Reviewing “High-Road” Contracting Reform Proposal
The Obama Administration is currently reviewing a proposal supported by the Center for American Progress and the National Employment Law Project, which claims that the federal contracting market is financing millions of poverty wage jobs across our economy, and supporting employers that are… Read More
March 11, 2010
Senators Introduce Energy Efficient Commercial Building Retrofit Bill, Hearing Held
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) March 4 introduced the "Building STAR Energy Efficiency Rebate Act of 2010" (S. 3079), a bill that would provide $6 billion in federal investment through rebates and financing incentives. The bill would cover about 30 percent of the cost of installing energy efficient… Read More
March 11, 2010
Senate Passes Tax Extenders, Pension Funding Relief Bill
On Wednesday, the Senate passed, 62-36, the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010, which includes a one-year extension of $31 billion of expired tax provisions and funding relief for pension plans.  Included in the tax extenders are two provisions of interest to the construction… Read More
March 11, 2010
AGC Joins Waters Advocacy Coalition in Letter to The New York Times
AGC joined members of the Waters Advocacy Coalition (WAC) Wednesday in a letter to the editor of The New York Times in response to an article the newspaper published March 1. The article addressed concerns with water and wetland protection under the Clean Water Act following two Supreme Court… Read More
March 11, 2010
Construction Employment Declines in Every State and D.C.
The construction workforce was smaller in every state and the District of Columbia in January 2010 than it was just 12 months earlier, according to a new analysis of federal data released Wednesday by AGC. The data indicated just how widespread the construction downturn is, AGC's chief economist… Read More
March 10, 2010
State Construction Employment - January
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CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT DECLINES IN EVERY STATE, D.C. BETWEEN JANUARY 2009 AND JANUARY 2010; 38 STATES, D.C. SEE DOUBLE-DIGIT DROPS California Loses the Most Construction Jobs, Nevada Has Highest Percentage Decline & North Dakota Loses the Least Jobs, Has Smallest Percentage Decline in… Read More
March 10, 2010
Plethora of Price Hikes Plagues Contractors
Materials prices are on the rise. The retail price of on-highway diesel fuel hit a 16-month high of $2.90 per gallon, 86 cents (42 percent) higher than a year ago, the Energy Information Administration reported on Monday. Copper and aluminum futures prices on Monday also neared the highest level… Read More
March 9, 2010
President Pushes for Vote on Health Care, ҵ Calls for Employer-Friendly Reforms
As President Obama and Democratic Leaders regroup from the White House summit on Health Care Reform, they have begun plotting a strategy and timeline for passage. It appears that the Democrats are considering moving the legislation at an accelerated pace, perhaps beginning as early as this week. In… Read More
March 9, 2010

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