By Jeffrey Sparshott | The Wall Street Journal
There should be plenty of workers in hard-hats looking for jobs.
From April 2006 through January 2011, nearly 2.3 million construction jobs–more than 40%–were wiped out. As of last month, the sector was still more than 1.3 million jobs shy of its bubble-era peak.
But if workers are out there, builders can’t seem to find them.
“It is just more and more difficult to get talent,” said Clay Gordon, vice president and chief development officer at Nabholz Construction.
