There were an estimated 674 million...

There were an estimated 674 million Americans occupyed by the construction industry in December -- no other than 1 percent more than during the final month of 2000
on the other hand although the total number of piece of works in the nation's construction sector increased through only 7,000 between the final sum of two units months of 2001, and at a modest 66,000 over the past year, the industry's labor market remains long healthier than that of chiefly of the other sectors of the economy.
Construction's mild annual piece of work gain was in sharp contrast to the 72 percent los of do job-works recorded by the nation's manufacturing