"There's nothing out there in the commercial construction job market right now, " he said.
But after reform, Mejia's new construction job and his newly acquired social security number allowed his family to buy a home in California.
Michael Sykuta, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri, told CNN that a single construction job normally spins off two or perhaps three indirect jobs at most.
"I would take advantage of it tomorrow, if I could, " said Danette Lopez, whose father died after his flight was hijacked as he returned to his Norwalk home from a construction job in Boston.
An undrafted free agent out of Akron whom the Giants literally pulled off of a construction job in 2005, Blackburn had been with the team through last season, when he served as special-teams captain.
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These came largely from manufacturing, temporary help services and mining, while the construction sector saw job losses.
Limitations on housing construction are weak job growth, tight credit standards for home buyers, and developer financing challenges.
When can we begin to put America's construction workers back on job sites rebuilding roads, rails, and runways across the country?
One of the things that we talked about repeatedly, the President has talked about repeatedly, is that we need to keep those construction workers on the job.
He also will urge Congress to take longer-term action when it comes to funding infrastructure projects around the country, putting -- keeping construction workers on the job, helping rebuild our infrastructure and, again, further solidify the foundation for our economic future.
Pew estimates that net migration -- newly arrived immigrants minus those leaving (forced or voluntarily) -- has come to a standstill, which it attributes to the weakened U.S. job and construction markets, border enforcement, an increase in deportations, and increased dangers associated with crossing the border.
And I think it is worth checking in with the American people as to whether they think that is worth the effort -- that that is what they what Congress to be doing at a time when Congress could be passing bills tomorrow that would keep a million construction workers on the job in this country in this economy.
Second, we should put construction workers back on the job to repair our crumbling infrastructure.
These initiatives would help modernize communities, expand small businesses, and get more construction workers back on the job.
Put teachers back to work, firefighters and police officers back to work, construction workers back on the job.
Job losses in construction and related industries, which have so far been mild, are likely to rise sharply.
They said no to putting teachers and construction workers back on the job.
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Even if job losses in construction and manufacturing begin to push up the unemployment rate, the labour market will still be tight.
These top markets for 2012 construction tend to have strong job growth and low vacancy rates, and they suffered relatively little during the housing bust.
Building new cities will put construction workers back on the job.
It will put contractors and construction workers back on the job.
It has kept millions of families in debt and unable to spend, and it has left hundreds of thousands of construction workers out of a job.
Construction is the most dangerous job outside of commercial fishing.
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They said no to putting hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job repairing our roads and our bridges and our schools and our transit systems.
Congress should have passed a bill a long time ago to put thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our runways.
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B, pass legislation proposed by the President that would put teachers, firefighters, policemen, construction workers back on the job, and grow the economy and add a million jobs to the bottom line.
Look, pass this jobs bill, and right here in Colorado, thousands of construction workers will have a job again. (Applause.) This is one of the most common-sense ideas out there.
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Ohio, if you pass this bill, then right here in this state, tens of thousands of construction workers will have a job again. (Applause.) This is one of the most common-sense ideas out there.
Mr Obama noted that the involvement of several jurisdictions, as well as private companies whose payments were tied to performance, meant "construction workers are on the job digging this tunnel, doing great jobs, getting good pay".
I've been pretty vocal about how important it is to put these transportation investments into action and get hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads, bridges, airports, and transit systems.
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