Immigrants are responsible for the bulk of growth within the U.S. labor market. That’s according to new research from the non-partisan National Foundation for American Policy.
The report’s authors say the U.S.-born population is aging and its growth, or birth rate, is slowing.
Their research shows that as a result, immigrant workers have driven nearly 90% of the labor market growth since 2019. The number of workers with U.S.-born parents has also declined by more than a million since 2018, while number of immigrant workers and their children grew by more than 5 million.
"In other words, instead of a decline in the labor force of over 1 million, with all the negative implications for inflation, growth, taxes and Social Security, because of immigrants and their children, the U.S. labor force grew by over 4 million," the report reads.
The authors say if current trends continue, the only way to grow the U.S. workforce after 2052 will be through immigration.
