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slash UK to donate or find out more. On today's show, it's a shiny, sparkly, brand new year. But the themes of the economy, they're everlasting.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

In New York, I'm Kristen Schwab and for Kyris-Dahl.

It's Thursday, January 2nd. Thanks for tuning in.

We have finally moved into the new year. But when it comes to the economy, we're still gathering Intel on 2024.

Today's data dump is construction spending from November. The figures from the Commerce Department's Census Bureau

taken everything from home building to putting up new power plants, hospitals, and schools.

Also, the repairs and rebuilding of public infrastructure like highways, ports, and water treatment

plants. In November, spending was flat from October and up 3% from the year before, numbers that are lower than what

economists expected. But as Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman reports, there are pockets of strong

construction growth. Nearly half of all construction in this country is residential. Single-family

home building has held up well, with spending up about 8% year-to-date through November.

Multi-family construction, though, is down nearly 6%.

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