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In Austin, construction jobs declined 5.8 percent to 45,50p between April 2008 and April 2009. Amonh the communities seeing the largest declines in construction employmentwere Tucson, with a 29.2 percent decline and Redding, with a 31.6 percent decline. By comparison, construction employment grew in only 19 of nearlty 300metro areas, led by an 8 percent gain in Odessa and a 7.3 percentr increase in Baton Rouge, La. Accordint to the AGC, the construction sector has seen the largesft decline in employment relative to the rest of the While overall construction unemployment wasat 18.7 percent in April 2009, the overall unemployment rate was 8.
6 So while construction accounts for one-fifth of the U.S. construction workers account for 20 percent of all jobs lost in thepast “Job loss figures like these are exactlyy what prompted Congress and the [Obama] Administration to crafty a stimulus package designed to get Americanws back to work as quickly as possible,” said AGC Chiefg Ken Simonson. “Putting thess funds to good use as quicklyh as possible is the best way to get Americans back to work and the economy backon track.
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