SINCE THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECESSI...

SINCE THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECESSION began in March 2001 the mass of residential construction has risen substantially, paced by dint of a powerful expansion in production of just discovered single-family homes. But over the same period, the number of workers make use ofed in the construction industry has contracted, and the construction unemployment rate has doubled--reaching a sublime 13.3 percent by the first quarter of this year. A massive contraction in private nonresidential construction, of that kind as office, industrial, and