The Bureau of Labor Statistics is slated to release the July jobs report on Friday. But we already have a sense of how things stand in the construction industry. The Associated General Contractors of America recently issued a report that finds job gains in the building trade are uneven, with residential construction still lagging.For more, Marketplace correspondent Nancy Marshall-Genzer spoke with “Marketplace Morning Report” host Kimberly Adams. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.Kimberly Adams: So you'd think that employment in construction would be booming because of all these AI data centers being built, but it seems that's not quite the case.Nancy Marshall-Genzer: Right. Associated General Contractors of America says overall construction employment rose 0.8% in June year over year, which is OK but not as good as earlier in the year. It is slowing down.Adams: Why is that?Marshall-Genzer: Well, it's partly because of uncertainty, supply chain stuff. Macrina Wilkins is director of market insights at Associated General Contractors of America. She told me construction companies are more hesitant to hire now, partly because they're afraid of a lapse in federal funding for transportation projects, but also it's difficult to get some materials on time. And she says the construction industry leans heavily on immigrants —which is complicated, of course, given the Trump administration's stance on immigration.Macrina Wilkins: Some of the policies that are less incentivized to provide worker visas for people that haven't been necessarily born in the United States, it makes an issue that is challenging — hiring workers — even more challenging.Adams: That would be a problem for residential construction too, but I would also think that interest rates are a problem there.Marshall-Genzer: Oh, for sure. Wilkins says employment just in residential construction — that is, home-building — it was down 1.5% in June from the same time last year. That's partly because mortgage rates are high, so fewer people are buying houses.