Six men short on Monday. Not to a competitor. To fear. The math: 500K new workers needed in 2026. 18.8% of the current workforce faces removal. Nearly 1 in 5. We need more people and we are removing the ones we have. Hispanic workers are 31.9% of this industry. Not a talking

A worker falls. No one calls OSHA. Not because no one saw it. Because calling OSHA means questions. Questions mean attention. Attention means deportation risk. Hispanic construction worker deaths: up 107% from 2011 to 2022. Non-Hispanic: up 16.5%. Same sites. Six times the rate

Construction has been hiring in jeans for a hundred years. Not because it's progressive. Because the work tells you immediately if someone can do it. That is the only credential that matters. #construction #workforce #hiring

A project manager I talked to has never opened an AI tool. His competitor uses it to predict schedule delays before they happen. That gap is widening every day. 27% of construction firms use AI. 94% are scaling up in 2026. The $20.6B market by 2034 is being built by the firms

For years, billion-dollar data centers moved into communities and sent the power bill to the families already living there. As a public servant, my view on accountability is simple: if you break it, you own it. The Trump administration's Ratepayer Protection Pledge now requires

We are trying to build the most advanced technology on earth using electrical infrastructure from the 1970s. As someone who has spent a career inside public institutions, I know how deferred decisions compound. This one has been visible for years. Stargate scrapped...

The AI boom is creating $240,000 jobs that most Americans cannot qualify for. That is a public health problem. As a Director of Social Determinants of Health, I watched firsthand how credential gaps compound into health gaps, income gaps, and generational poverty. E...

Project Caprock broke ground yesterday in Hale County, Texas. 540 megawatts. 313 acres. Six facilities. Thousands of construction jobs over a multi-year buildout backed by BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft. Someone is going to build this. Hispanic workers make u...

The Hispanic construction workforce is not a niche story. It is the story of who built this country and who is building it right now. One in three construction workers in the United States is Hispanic. Latin Times sat down with HCC to talk about what that means for...

Hispanic workers make up more than half of the construction labor force in America. You see them on every jobsite. Pouring foundations. Running conduit. Framing walls in heat that would sideline most. Yet across the industry, fewer than 1 in 12 management positions...

Tariffs added $10,900 to the cost of building one home. We need 349,000 new construction workers this year. We are making both problems worse at the same time.

70,000 Hispanic-owned construction firms cannot get on public works bid lists. It is a capital access problem, not a qualifications problem. The SBA bonding guarantee program has a $10M limit that was never updated for today's contract sizes. We documented the fix.

28% of construction firms reported workforce disruptions from immigration enforcement. 10% lost workers directly. Small Hispanic-owned subcontractors carry the highest exposure with the fewest resources to manage it. hispanicconstruction.org #Construction #HispanicContractors

50% tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper are in effect now. Construction input prices are up 12.6% annualized, the fastest pace since 2022 per ENR Q1 2026. Every lump-sum bid without an escalation clause is a margin problem today. #Construction #Tariffs #MaterialCosts

Data center construction will absorb 296,700 workers in 2026. That is 85% of all net new industry demand. Half of contractors are already delaying projects. The labor is there. It is working somewhere else. #ConstructionWorkforce #DataCenters #IIJA