The national unemployment rate for the construction industry rose to 17.1 percent as another 64,000 construction workers lost their jobs in September, according to ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s analysis of new employment data released Friday. With 80 percent of layoffs occurring in nonresidential construction, Ken Simonson, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½'s chief economist, said the decline in nonresidential construction has eclipsed housing's problems.
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