U.S. employers added just 175,000 jobs last month, and the nation’s unemployment rate actually rose to 7.6 percent. As completely unacceptable as these numbers are for a supposed economic recovery, the construction industry is suffering even worse. A full 10.8 percent of the nation’s construction workers are currently unemployed, and, according to Sen. Marco Rubio’s, R-Fla., staff, it is their own fault.

The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza reports on the negotiations between Rubio and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill: