The US is in dire need of more housing and infrastructure like roads, bridges, and clean energy. With money pouring into these areas, jobs will follow over the next decade.

Hannah Jones, a Realtor.com economic research analyst, describes the need for more workers to help with the housing crisis:

“We need people to be building homes. I would say just at that macro level, in order to build more homes there will necessarily need to be more labor.”

President Joe Biden is also behind the need for more infrastructure construction. His Bipartisan Infrastructure Law means job opportunities, including in infrastructure-repair investments, such as for bridges, and investments in public transportation and electric vehicle charging.

“Even though other segments of the economy have been softening, construction has still continued to outpace and achieve growth, and a lot of that as of late has really been fueled by the different infrastructure and other legislative acts,” Kit Dickinson, vice president business development at ADP, told Insider.

An analysis from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce noted some of the job growth from infrastructure spending may include “traditional blue-collar construction and transportation industries; smart infrastructure such as smart-grid electrical technologies, broadband and 5G internet technologies, and green technology; and white-collar professional and business services, and other downstream industries.”

“Long-term investments in infrastructure have the potential to revitalize, at least temporarily, the blue-collar economy by creating jobs for welders, electricians, technicians, and truck drivers, among other occupations,” the report said.

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