Foreign-born workers accounted for all of last year's net employment growth, leaving tens of millions of U.S.-born Americans out of the labor market, a new analysis details. .
of analysis The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) study tracks the decline in labor force participation among native-born Americans from 1960 to 2024. This is an alarming trend that coincides with a sharp increase in immigration levels.
“By relying on immigrant workers, our country has been able to ignore decades of declining labor force participation rates,” said CIS Director of Research Stephen Camarota. said:
Reducing immigration raises wages and encourages work and force policymakers to undertake much-needed reforms in welfare and disability programs. [Emphasis added]
As of April, 43 million working-age American-born Americans between the ages of 16 and 64 were not in the labor force. This is approximately 8.5 million more people than in 2000.
More specifically, the percentage of working-age American-born American men not participating in the labor force increased from 11 percent in April 1960 to 22 percent in April of this year. If these men's labor force participation rates were the same today as they were in the 1960s, there would be approximately 9 million more men in the labor force.
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Even among U.S.-born American men considered to be in the “prime age” workforce, the proportion not in the labor force has increased from 4 percent in April 1960 to 12 percent in April 2024. .
At the same time, the latest employment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that while there are 1.1 million fewer U.S.-born Americans in the labor force compared to the same time last year, more than 400,000 foreign-born Americans of workers have gained jobs.
“…all of the net employment growth went to foreign-born workers,” said heritage economist E.J. Antoni. I wrote “…local-born employment will not return to pre-pandemic trends and is now [619,000] It is below pre-pandemic levels. ”
“On the contrary, foreign-born employment was on a pre-pandemic growth trend, accounting for all net employment growth over the past five years,” Antoni noted.
Under President Joe Biden's mass immigration policies, the country's foreign-born population has reached a record high of 52 million, or 15.5% of the U.S. population. If immigration is not reduced to current levels, the foreign-born population is projected to reach 82.2 million by 2040.
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