{"id":1004233660,"date":"2018-06-05T07:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004233660"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T06:32:50","slug":"economy-watch-weekly-employment-construction-spending-still-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-weekly-employment-construction-spending-still-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch Weekly: Employment, Construction Spending Still Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004127908\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/09\/CPERadio.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004127908\" data-attachment-id=\"1004127908\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-weekly-new-goods\/cperadio\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/09\/CPERadio.png\" data-orig-size=\"930,608\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CPERadio\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Listen to the podcast above.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/09\/CPERadio.png?w=930\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004127908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/09\/CPERadio.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/09\/CPERadio.png 930w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/09\/CPERadio.png?resize=300,196 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/09\/CPERadio.png?resize=768,502 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004127908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listen to the podcast above.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Total payroll employment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-employment-up-by-223k-jobs-in-may\/\">increased by 223,000 jobs in May<\/a>, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This amount beat the average of the previous 12 months, which was an increase of 191,000 and&nbsp;up from 164,000 in April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. construction spending during April came in at an annualized rate of $1.3 trillion, or 1.8 percent above the&nbsp;revised March total, according to the Census Bureau.&nbsp;For the year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-construction-spending-gains-ground\/\">rise in private spending was 7.6 percent<\/a>, the same as the overall rate.&nbsp;Economy Editor Dees Stribling gives a breakdown of these two topics, for the week ending June 1, 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payroll employment has increased significantly to 223,000 jobs, whereas construction spending increased 1.8 percent than the previous month. 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