The analysis found that since 2019, most of the job growth in the United States has come from newly arrived immigrants, as working-class American men continue to drop out of the labor force.
analysis, Published The report, by Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, shows the extent to which President Joe Biden’s policy of expanding the labor market through mass immigration, rather than bringing Americans on the sidelines back to work, is playing out.
Since 2019, before the Chinese coronavirus pandemic shut down the national economy, roughly 75% of U.S. job growth has come from new immigrants, including both illegal and legal immigrants.
During the same period, fewer than 1 million Americans were added to the workforce.
“According to the government’s household survey, only 971,000 more native-born Americans were employed in May 2024 compared with May 2019, before the pandemic, while the number of employed immigrants increased by 3.2 million,” Camarota wrote.
At the same time, labor force participation rates for working-class American men continue to decline.
The labor force participation rate for prime-age American men ages 25 to 54 with only a high school diploma is declining from 95.7% in 1960 to 81.6% by 2024.
Similarly, the labor force participation rate for American men without a bachelor’s degree fell from 95.8% in 1960 to 84.8% in 2024. The labor force participation rate for prime-age American men, regardless of education level, has fallen by about 8 percentage points in 64 years.
“…” [T]”Labor force participation rates — the percentage of people who are working or looking for work — have fallen dramatically among U.S.-born men since the 1960s, especially among those without a bachelor’s degree,” Camarota writes.
“Although labor force participation rates for these groups have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels, rates in 2024 remain at or near historic lows relative to other peaks in the business cycle,” he continues. “This also applies to U.S.-born men ages 25 to 54, who are in the ‘best’ position to work.”
Chart provided by the Center for Immigration Studies
Breitbart News has documented declining labor force participation rates for American men for years, but Biden is expanding the labor market primarily with new immigrants who are granted work permits after being released into the U.S. interior.
For example, since 2023, about 300,000 U.S.-born Americans have left the labor force, while about 637,000 immigrants have joined the labor force.
Biden has helped increase the foreign-born population, and therefore the number of employable foreign-born workers, to unprecedented levels.
The foreign-born population currently stands at 51.6 million, the largest ever recorded in the history of the U.S. In other words, roughly 3 out of every 19 people living in the U.S. were born abroad.
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