Archive for December 14, 2009

Construction Sector Unemployment Rises Again

November figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show almost 20 percent unemployment among American construction workers There is more bad news for the U.S. construction industry in the latest job figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to preliminary BLS data, construction sector unemployment for the month of November reached 19.4 percent [...]

Final Report from Copenhagen

This is the last in a series of dispatches from the 2009 climate change summit sent to us by Amy L. Jarvis of Environmental Resources Management I am back in the U.S. and will not be sending any additional updates from the ground in Copenhagen. Here are some final thoughts about the conference and its [...]