AGC: Cincinnati lost 9% of construction jobs over year - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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That’s because 276 of the 299 largest metrok areas inthe U.S. lost construction jobs over the 12-mont h period, AGC said in a Wednesday news Cincinnati rankedat 108, having lost 4,200 or 8.9 percent, over the year. As of April, the area had aboutt 42,900 jobs. That’s the highest number of jobs inthe state, The next-closest is Columbus, which had 30,500 construction jobs in April, down 13.1 percent; followexd by Cleveland-Elyria-Montor with 29,700 jobs, down 19.9 percen year over year. Springfield had the best at No. 20, because it didn’t lose any of its 1,40 construction jobs over the year, the AGC Akron ranked 64th, losing 5.
6 percent of its and had 11,900 as of April. In the Lexington-Fayette metro ranked losing 8 percent, or 1,00o0 jobs over the period, and had 11,500 as of The Louisville-Jefferson County metro lost 5,7000 jobs, or 16.8 percent, and had 28,20o as of April. Economist Ken Simonson, who conducted the analysisd for AGC, said federal stimulus funds should help add more jobs over the remainder ofthe year. But he said that “buy provisions attached to funding were holdingy upsome projects.
“We need to make sure needleszs red tape andregulations don’tr keep construction workers off the job,” Simonson said in the Some metro areas gained jobs, including Odessa, which ranked at No. 1, with an 8 percenr increase. Pascagoula, Miss., ranked last with a job-loss rate of 38.8