Construction Spending Slips 0.3 Percent In July With Decreases In Private Projects As New Survey Indicates Worker Shortages Are Worsening
Drop in Spending Likely Caused by the Fact 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report They are Having a Hard Time Finding People to Hire as Construction Spending Falls to an Annual Rate of $2.162 Trillion Construction spending slid 0.3 percent from June to July, pulled down by declines in private residential and nonresidential construction, according…