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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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Highway Trust Fund Revenue Ideas Proposed
 With the May 31 deadline for reauthorization of the federal-aid highway and federal transit programs quickly approaching, finding a solution for keeping the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) solvent remains the biggest hurdle. Recently Sen. Finance Committee Chair Orin Hatch (R-Utah) – whose committee… Read More
July 23, 2015
TCC Sends HTF Letter to Budget Committees
This week, the AGC-led Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) sent a letter to the House and Senate Budget Committees urging them to address the looming insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) in their fiscal year 2016 budget resolutions.  The budget provides the… Read More
July 23, 2015
Senate Finance Committee Action
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee conducted a tax reform hearing on compliance and administration of the tax code. Witnesses included Carol Markman of EP Caine & Associates, Mihir Desai of Harvard University, Bruce Bartlett, former deputy assistant secretary for economic policy… Read More
July 23, 2015
AGC Comments on Performance of Work Requirements Proposed Rule
SBA Seeks to Standardize and Simplify Calculation with Risk to Construction    AGC recently submitted comments on the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) proposed rule revamping small business prime contractor performance of work requirements. The proposed rule… Read More
July 23, 2015
AGC Advances Measures to Address Individual Surety Fraud
New Legislation Introduced, FAR Council Petition Sent    Representative Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) recently introduced legislation that would help prevent individual surety fraud in the federal construction bonding marketplace.  The Security in Bonding Act of 2015, H.R. 838, would… Read More
July 23, 2015
AGC Opposes Blacklisting Executive Order Anchor
AGC noted its opposition to President Obama’s “Fair Pay and Safe Work Places” Executive Order (EO), commonly referred to as the “Blacklisting” EO in a letter to members of the House Education and Workforce Committee. The executive order would allow contracting officers to deny… Read More
July 23, 2015
Help Support WRRDA Levels of Funding for Harbor Maintenance
Contact Your Member of Congress and Ask Them to Sign House Letter    This week, AGC sent a letter urging all members of the House of Representatives to sign an AGC-supported letter authored by Representatives Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Janice Hahn (D-… Read More
July 23, 2015
Construction HR & Training Professionals Conference Offers Continuing Education Credits
At AGC of America, we know how important maintaining professional credentials are to those who hold such designations. Therefore, AGC’s Construction HR & Training Professionals Conference will offer opportunities for HR, training and workforce development professionals to earn recertification… Read More
July 22, 2015
Construction Employment Declines in Half of the States Between May and June as Congress Seeks New Way to Pay for Needed Transportation Upgrades
Construction employment declined in 25 states between May and June even as 39 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between June 2014 and June 2015, according to an analysis today of Labor Department data by AGC. Association officials noted that the monthly construction… Read More
July 21, 2015
Five Reasons to Attend AGC’s 2015 Contractors Environmental Conference Sept. 2-3
If you’re interested in any aspect of environmental compliance or sustainability on a construction jobsite, this is the conference for you.  Learn from industry experts and your peers at AGC’s 2015 Contractors Environmental Conference on September 2-3 in Arlington, Virginia.  It’s only… Read More
July 17, 2015

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