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NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Nov-26-2010
Welcome drop for workplace injuries WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers declined in 2009 to a rate of 3.6 cases per 100 equivalent full-time...
Risk is real for delay or denial of jobless benefits
Date: Nov-26-2010
The thin economic lifeline that is unemployment benefits could end for 3.2 million Americans by the end of December if the lame-duck session of Congress doesn’t result in the passage...
Tax, jobless situations show trickle-down theory hasn’t lost its charm
Date: Nov-26-2010
(By Robert Reich, Fmr. U.S. Secretary of Labor) America’s long-term unemployed – an estimated 4 million or more – constitute the single newest and biggest social problem facing America. Now...
Trades start to frame new art museum
Date: Nov-26-2010
EAST LANSING – Now rising at Michigan State University is the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum – a building sure to add architectural flair to the campus. Foundations are...
Will anti-public pension tide swamp trade unions, too?
Date: Nov-26-2010
(By Mark Breslin) News item from MSNBC.com, Nov. 12… “Annual budget woes are a drop in the bucket compared to long-term obligations facing (some) states – particularly their promises to supply...
Another dip in the road for transportation spending
Date: Nov-12-2010
Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) leadership have announced their plans for a $1.38 billion investment in the 2011 statewide Highway Program. According to the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, this...
Bond issue sends trades back to schools in Detroit
Date: Nov-12-2010
DETROIT – A $505 million capital improvement bond issue approved a year ago by Detroit voters is starting to translate into a wide swath of construction projects to improve the...
First forecast for 2011 calls for sunnier skies
Date: Nov-12-2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A brighter construction industry outlook in 2011? Bring it on. The prognosticators at McGraw-Hill Construction released their 2011 Construction Outlook on Oct. 29, and said they expect...
Michigan’s misery: Costs for health care up, again
Date: Nov-12-2010
U.S. health care costs have mostly defied the laws of gravity in recent years, and 2011 is expected to be no different. While the nation’s inflation rate remained at a...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Nov-12-2010
Employment up a bit, but industry still lags Even as the number of people working in construction creeped up by 5,000 between September and October 2010, the industry’s unemployment rate...