Construction added 23,000 jobs in September but the industry’s unemployment rate showed uneven trends, rising from August’s level but declining year over year, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.
The latest BLS monthly report on the nation’s employment situation, released on Oct. 5, shows that construction’s September jobless rate increased to 4.1% from August’s 3.4% but it also improved from the year-earlier 4.7%.