Industrial Staffing Report: March 15, 2018

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Construction hiring fueled by growth in energy, government, housing sectors (The Wall Street Journal)

Construction hiring is once again booming on the heels of a broad-based economic recovery, The Wall Street Journal reported. The construction sector added 61,000 jobs in February, the biggest one-month gain in nearly 11 years, according to the Labor Department. Several factors are driving up employment in the blue-collar field, though it still hasn’t fully recovered jobs lost during the housing crisis and subsequent recession a decade ago.