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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ's analysis of new employment data released Friday. With 80 percent of layoffs occurring in nonresidential construction, Ken Simonson, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's chief economist, said the decline in nonresidential construction has eclipsed housing's problems.
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