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States Controlling Coronavirus Spread See Uptick in Construction and Manufacturing Job Growth
by Matt Sedlar
Employment in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging increased by 39,000 jobs in July, or 0.2 percent over the previous month, according to the latest ...
Blue Collar Jobs Bounce Back in May But We’re Still in the Midst of a Pandemic
by Matt Sedlar
Employment in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging increased by 669,000 or 3.58 percent in May. This is largely a reversal of declines in April, ...
No Good News in April Blue Collar Jobs Report Even for States Resisting Business Closures
by Matt Sedlar
Employment in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging decreased by 2,373,000 jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was, of course, ...
Revised July Numbers and Weak August Job Growth Raise Questions About Slump Again
by Matt Sedlar
Jobs in the blue collar sectors of construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging increased by 12,000 in August. The big news is not, however, the ...