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Construction Workers Still Experiencing Depression-Level Unemployment Despite Overall National Improvement

02/05/2010 LIUNA

Washington Needs to Act with the Urgency that Depression-Level Unemployment Demands

Washington, D.C. – Today’s U.S. Labor Department unemployment report showed a decline in national unemployment but workers in the construction industry saw another month of devastating job loss. Construction unemployment spiked to 24.7 percent as another 75,000 construction jobs were lost. Nearly 2.1 million construction jobs have been lost since the recession began.

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