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Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, ABC members report an increase in construction backlog.

Continuing economic uncertainty is causing job declines among building contractors and heavy/civil firms.

With labor shortages mounting, construction is betting on Gen Z to reshape the industry as the skillbuilding competition and other initiatives spotlight trade careers. 

May 2025 job opening were down by 130,000 compared with May 2024.

Residential and non-residential spending both experienced yearly and monthly declines, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The order stays attempts by the U.S. Dept. of Labor to shutter the job training program until a related lawsuit is settled.

Experts note economic uncertainty is slowing job growth in the construction sector. 

The accident killed Dylan Kemp, 27, and injured an unidentified worker after steel trusses fell on them at a high school gymnasium project in Potterville, Mich.

Both documented and undocumented workers are being swept up as raids escalate across construction, as others avoid jobsites to stay out of ICE crosshairs.