Immigrant Workers Grew By 1.9 Million in November 2022 Compared to 2019
Jose Nino
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Dec 26, 2022
According to a recent report by Center of Immigration Studies researcher director Steven A. Camarota and demographer Karen Zeigler, there are now 1.9 million more legal and illegal aliens in the workforce than prior to the pandemics. These immigrant aliens were referred to as “foreign-born” in government data.
Some of the findings in the CIS study included:
In November 2022, there were 29.6 million immigrants (legal and illegal combined) actively working in the United States. This was 1.9 million more than in November 2019, prior to the outbreak of the Wuhan virus pandemic.
By contrast, there were 2.1 million fewer U.S.-born Americans in the workforce in November 2022 than in November 2019.
Overall, there has been a long-term decline in the labor force participation rate — the percentage of working-age (16-64) individuals working or looking for work — among U.S.-born Americans, especially among individuals without a bachelor’s degree.
In November of 2022, there were 44.9 million working-age U.S.-born Americans outside of the labor force — a figure that is roughly 10 million higher than in 2000.
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