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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More

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AGC Winter Financial Issues Committee Meeting
Register for the AGC Financial Issues Committee (FIC) Winter Meeting held at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale, AZ scheduled for January 13-14, 2016. Please visit the meeting’s site to register as well as view presentations and agendas of past meetings. The meeting… Read More
February 4, 2016
Register Now for the 2016 Federal Contractors Conference
Save $100 on Registration Fee Register today for the 2016 AGC Federal Contractors Conference (FEDCON) and save $100 off the registration fee. FEDCON is the premier conference for federal construction contractors to discuss the latest projects, policies and contracting issues facing the industry… Read More
February 4, 2016
2015 AGC/CFMA Construction Financial Management Conference a Success
Save the Date! Oct 19-21, 2016 | Las Vegas, Nevada Last week, over 480 construction company owners, CFOs, CPAs and consultants attended the successful 19th Annual AGC/CFMA Construction Financial Management Conference, jointly sponsored by AGC and the Construction Financial Management Association (… Read More
February 4, 2016
Successful 2015 AGC Highway Contractors Conference in Phoenix Last Week
Save the Date! Nov. 3-5, 2016 | Phoenix, Arizona Last week, over 100 construction company owners, suppliers and industry partners who perform work in the highway & transit markets attended the 2015 AGC Highway Contractors Conference. The two-day meeting featured presentations and discussions… Read More
February 4, 2016
Two-Year Budget Deal Passes House, Moves to Senate
Yesterday, the House of Representatives approved by a vote of 266-167, the  Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, a two-year budget deal that will help avert automatic, across-the-board budget cuts in fiscal years 2016 and 2017 through raising government spending levels by about $80 billion annually… Read More
February 4, 2016
OSHA Civil Penalties Increase under Budget Act
The Bipartisan Budget Act removes a statutory exemption from penalties under certain statutes, including the Occupational Safety & Health Act, from inflation for civil penalties. Unlike other similar civil penalties in federal law, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)… Read More
February 4, 2016
ACA’s Auto-Enrollment Provision Repealed in Budget Act
An AGC-supported provision within the Bipartisan Budget Act repeals the mandatory auto-enrollment of employees in employer-provided health care coverage. The provision originated in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and forced employers with more than 200 full-time employees to automatically enroll a… Read More
February 4, 2016
Transportation Bill Heads to the House Floor Next Week
Extension Through Nov. 20 This week saw significant progress in moving a multi-year highway & transit bill.  Following passage of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (STRRA) in the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee last week, the full House is… Read More
February 4, 2016
Congress Gears Up to Consider Career and Technical Education Legislation
This week there was movement in both the House and the Senate towards reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. The Act is a federal program that distributes more than $1 billion each year to the states to support career and technical education (CTE). The bill was last… Read More
February 4, 2016
House Elects a New Speaker
On Thursday, the House of Representatives elected Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) as the 54th Speaker to replace retiring Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). During his swearing-in ceremony, Speaker Ryan stated, “Let’s be frank: The House is broken. We are not solving problems. We are adding to them. And I… Read More
February 4, 2016

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