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Union-backed analysis of federal data says apprenticeships deliver similar compensation and social outcomes as four-year college degrees.

Report finds that construction would account for 48% of bill's new jobs from highway and transit increases.

Package also would suspend debt limit, drawing heavy GOP opposition.

Contractor group wants workplace definition changes, employer mandate liability and enforcement clarifications, among other things for federal contractors and large firms.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 8 said it plans to set effluent limitations guidelines and pretreatment standards for industrial facilities that manufacture per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as well as chromium electroplating facilities, which use PFAS in their processes. 

Between COVID-19, the five named storms that hit the state in 2020 and the industry’s ever-present labor shortage, Louisiana contractors have spent the last year trying to get by with a maxed-out workforce and pandemic-related supply chain shortages.