{"id":3009,"date":"2024-02-01T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2024-02-02T01:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T01:34:29","slug":"home-construction-industry-needs-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/home-construction-industry-needs-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Construction Industry Needs Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Association of General Contractors of America says there is a\u00a0shortage of skilled tradespeople such as electricians and plumbers. The national Associated Builders and Contractors say\u00a0the industry has had a shortage of workers since before the pandemic. The problem isn\u2019t new, the \u201cU.S. construction industry lost nearly 30 percent of its workforce during the Great Recession of 2008.\u201d States have addressed the issue with more workforce development and apprentice programs effectuated through legislation, executive orders, and grant programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/workforce\/to-build-more-homes-the-u-s-first-needs-more-workers?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20GOV%20-%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=291517970&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8BdEtXymW2ygxOvqZHSOaXUt0v5uhmMbNFrlUpFBg7aQclpl3FwDeG2AMMWGTvakLzwW3HCqnRSyiqmsjUD2jFxnQWznRylCcI5Q8NrbbsAbubExU&amp;utm_content=291517970&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Governing | To Build More Homes, the U.S. First Needs More Workers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of General Contractors of America says there is a\u00a0shortage of skilled tradespeople such as electricians and plumbers. The national Associated Builders and Contractors say\u00a0the industry has had a shortage of workers since before the pandemic. The problem isn\u2019t new, the \u201cU.S. construction industry lost nearly 30 percent of its workforce during the Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}