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September 1, 2009
There were 2,200 fewer construction jobs in the Albany, N.Y. region in July compared to the same month last year, according to federal data analyzed by a national construction trade group.
The decline represented an 11 percent reduction in construction jobs in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan statistical area, according to the Associated General Contractors of America.
The Albany area was one of 319 metros in the U.S. where construction employment declined on a year-over-year basis. There were job increases in only 11 metros; six others had no change in the numbers.
“These figures make it clear that construction workers in nearly every community nationwide are out of work and short on prospects,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “It’s going to take a lot of new construction activity to turn things around for idle construction workers in cities and towns nationwide.”
The hardest hit areas lost at least 30 percent of their construction jobs: Reno-Sparks, Nevada; Wenatchee, Wash.; Duluth, Minn.; Tuscon, Arizona; Leominster-Fitchburg, Mass.; and Redding, Calif.
Columbus, Indiana, led the nation in construction job growth, with a 14 percent increase.
The AGC used the data to pressure municipalities to more quickly spend the $135 billion in construction-related federal economic stimulus funding.
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