The Biden Economy: 43 Million Americans Out of Workforce, Migrants Take All Net Job GrowthJohn Binder 19 Dec 2024
Tens of millions of native-born Americans are out of the labor market as foreign-born workers account for all net job growth over the last year, new analysis details.
The analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) tracks the decline in labor force participation among native-born Americans from 1960 to 2024 — an alarming trend that has coincided with skyrocketing immigration levels.
“Relying on immigrant workers has allowed our country to ignore the decades-long decline in labor force participation,” CIS Director of Research Steven Camarota said:
Reducing immigration would cause wages to rise, incentivizing work and compelling policymakers to undertake much-needed reforms in welfare and disability programs.
As of April, 43 million working-age native-born Americans from 16 to 64 years old were not in the labor force — about 8.5 million more than in the year 2000.
More specifically, the share of working-age native-born American men not in the labor force has increased from 11 percent in April 1960 to 22 percent in April of this year. If today’s labor force participation rate for these men matched the 1960s, there would be about 9 million more men in the workforce.
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