A sharp rise in construction wages hasn’t solved the industry’s labor shortage — and meanwhile, is driving up prices for homebuyers Construction wages rose 21% between 2021 and 2024, significantly ...

American cities that build and remodel the most homes are also the most reliant on immigrant labor, new research found.

As of late April 2021, there were over 9 million open jobs in the U.S., a record high. Recent reports show employers across the country are scrambling for ways to fill their open requisitions. While ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For a long list of reasons, workers who have been working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic have been slow to return, creating shortages at companies across the country -- ...

The states cited worker shortages as a reason for ending the programs. When Rebecca Urie lost her job as a laboratory technician in West Virginia last March, the weekly extra federal unemployment ...

The massive disruption to the job market wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, when by the latter half of 2021 almost half of American companies were reporting a worker shortage, impacted every corner of ...

The hardest positions to fill in the region’s construction industry are field supervision and project management roles. Rosemary Adams, talent acquisition manager with JE Dunn Construction, said those ...

CHICAGO -- Talk about holiday hum-bug: It looks like Santa Claus might not be coming to every small town and city this year. A tight labor market has many people across the U.S. unable to book one of ...

The exterior of the Iowa state capitol building is seen in Des Moines on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some ...

The massive disruption to the job market wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, when by the latter half of 2021 almost half of American companies were reporting a worker shortage, impacted every corner of ...