Dive summary:

• The recovery in construction is nothing if not inconsistent, and federal labor numbers for April show it.
• Last month, 32 states and the District of Columbia had fewer people working in construction than they had in March, and 17 had more – 29 states had more people laboring in April than they did 12 months before.
• Vermont had the sad distinction of leading the job-losing states for both the month and the year when ranked by percentage of loss – 6.3% month to month and 11.3% year to year.

From the article:

"The industry shows signs of recovering but employment growth continues to be uneven, with some areas seeing stronger gains even as others continue to contract,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. ...