AGC: Cincinnati lost 9% of construction jobs over year - Nashville Business Journal:

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That’s because 276 of the 299 largesrt metro areas inthe U.S. lost construction jobs over the 12-montbh period, AGC said in a Wednesday news Cincinnati rankedat 108, having lost 4,200 or 8.9 percent, over the As of April, the area had about 42,90 0 jobs. That’s the highest number of jobs inthe however. The next-closest is Columbus, whicb had 30,500 construction jobs in down 13.1 percent; followefd by Cleveland-Elyria-Montor with 29,700 jobs, down 19.9 percengt year over year. Springfield had the best at No. 20, becauser it didn’t lose any of its 1,400p construction jobs over the year, the AGC said. Akronj ranked 64th, losing 5.
6 percent of its and had 11,900 as of April. In the Lexington-Fayette metro ranke d 99th, losing 8 percent, or 1,000 jobs over the and had 11,500 as of The Louisville-Jefferson County metro lost 5,70p0 jobs, or 16.8 percent, and had 28,20 as of April. Economist Ken who conducted the analysisfor AGC, said federa stimulus funds should help add more jobs over the remaindedr of the year. But he said that “but American” provisions attached to fundingh were holding upsome “We need to make sure needless red tape and regulationa don’t keep construction workers off the Simonson said in the release. Some metrop areas gained jobs, including Odessa, which ranked at No.
1, with an 8 percenf increase. Pascagoula, Miss., ranked last with a job-losd rate of 38.8 percent.