An estimated 1,400 people working for Pittsburgh area construction firms and their suppliers will lose their jobs because a Pennsylvania Senate-passed transportation funding measure failed in the state house, according to an analysis released today by AGC of America. Those job losses would be three times higher than the number of construction jobs added in the area during the past year and threaten to reverse recent industry job gains, association officials cautioned.
“Because the House failed to act, Pennsylvania is on track to invest hundreds of millions less per year in its highway system than what Republicans and Democrats in the state Senate approved,” said Richard Barcaskey, the executive director of the Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania, the local highway chapter for the AGC. “The reduction from what could have been invested in transportation statewide will undermine the construction industry’s recovery and hurt the commonwealth’s economy.”
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