{"id":18345,"date":"2025-06-27T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18345\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:23:10","slug":"washington-sees-nations-biggest-drop-in-construction-jobs-over-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18345\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington sees nation\u2019s biggest drop in construction jobs over past year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">Washington state added a few thousand construction jobs in May compared to April this year, but the state still has had the largest percentage drop in those jobs compared to\u00a0a\u00a0year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">A recent analysis of federal labor data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) showed that Washington state\u2019s construction\u00a0labor force is down 5%, or 11,200 jobs, compared to the same time in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">The Tri-Cities, however,\u00a0is\u00a0bucking that trend. The state Employment Security Department recorded the region as having 11,900 construction jobs in May, up from\u00a011,600\u00a0the prior month and 11,200 a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">California lost the most construction jobs overall\u00a0in the past year\u00a0at 13,800 positions,\u00a0representing\u00a01.5% of its construction labor force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">AGC officials noted that while there were some gains in construction jobs over the past month\u00a0around the country, they are muted and\u00a0states that have seen losses are struggling to recover because of current economic and political conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">\u201cUncertainty over tariffs, immigration, federal funding, taxes and other policy shifts is causing many types of projects to be put on hold across the country,\u201d said Ken Simonson, AGC\u2019s chief economist, in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington state added a few thousand construction jobs in May compared to April this year, but the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,17517,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-18345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-june-2025","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114753896923997643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}