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The Overlooked Impact of Immigration on the Size of the Future U.S. Workforce

November 22, 2024 (1 min read)

Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix and Julia Gelatt, MPI, Nov. 2024

"... In the new analysis detailed here, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) researchers provide first-ever projections of the U.S. working-age population by immigrant generation, building on the U.S. Census Bureau’s recent population projections by nativity. The results shed light on future population trends and their implications for the size of the U.S. working-age population by 2040. The results underscore the large and often overlooked impact of the growing working-age population of the U.S.-born offspring of immigrants in offsetting the declines in U.S. workers brought about by aging and lower fertility rates. ..."