Following a V-shaped recovery in the third quarter of 2020, economic growth has slowed. Amid pandemic's third wave, vaccines bring hope for the second half of 2021. 

The index is expected to continue to rise over the next six months.

Federal funding is critical to the country’s economic recovery, analysts say

Single-family housing and warehouse construction have endured through the economic downturn amid the COVID-19 crisis, but recovery in other sectors will take time, forecasters say.

A slow recovery has begun following economic fallout caused by COVID-19

Groundbreaking Women in Construction panelists explain the unconscious bias problem, and how to solve it. 

ABC's Anirban Basu forecasts overall economic recovery in 2021, with construction lagging behind.