Report: immigrants responsible for nearly all workforce growth since 2019

The vast majority of labour force growth in the US is driven by immigrants, a new report has found.

According to research published by the National Foundation for American Policy, foreign-born workers were responsible for 88% of workforce growth since 2019. In addition, the report projected that immigrant workers will comprise the only source of US labour force growth after 2052.

Without immigrants and their children, the US workforce would have shrunk since 2018, according to the report. Fewer than half a million US-born workers were added to the workforce in the past five years, compared to 3.6 million foreign-born workers. Further, foreign-born workers have accounted for more than half of workforce growth in each of the past three decades.