Louisiana had the steepest one-year construction employment decline in the U.S. in 2021 with a 15% contraction, Reuters reports. The contraction in Louisiana was largely due to a 4% decrease in U.S. construction investment in oil, gas fields and pipelines in January-November 2021 from a year earlier, according to data from the Association of
Louisiana lost the most construction jobs in US last year
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