Construction’s unemployment rate fell in November to 13.1% from October’s 13.7%. though the industry lost 12,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
The latest BLS monthly employment snapshot, released on Dec. 2, also indicated that construction’s November jobless rate was much better than November 2010’s rate of 18.8%. It also was the lowest monthly rate since November 2008, when the figure was 12.7%.