Stopping abortion is the answer..
Source: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
Lots of US labor isn't laboring. Over one-third of the "labor" isn't laboring.
But The Hill is indeed "laboring" to present a picture devoid of actual reality. It's what the corrupt and the Left, Democrats and RINOs do.
One of the article's writers works at Schimdt Futures, whose website is copyrighted by Futures Action Network LLC. Interestingly, Futures Action Network is identified as a "FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY." (Tracing this further back, it is a UK entity, something that neither The Hill article nor Schmit identify.
Source: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/5395357
Schimdt URL: https://www.schmidtfutures.com/
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/5395357
"Foreign limited liability companies" are lobbying government, and "messgaing" through media their "foreign" aims.
Everyone I know who has stories to tell about workplaces with mixed American/immigrant employees in semi-skilled and administrative positions tells me the same thing, and it paints a pathetic picture of the American work force.
Immigration does not include illegal aliens..... except in the minds of traitors.
The absence of “cheap labor” will create a market for robots and other automation.
Hispanic labor may be cheap for businesses, but when they drop anchor babies and get Food Stamps, Section 8 housing, etc, then these businesses have just shifted costs onto taxpayers.
The labor force participation rate indicates the percentage of all people of working age who are employed or are actively seeking work.
In conjunction with the unemployment numbers, it can offer some perspective into the state of the economy.
Starting in 2013, the U.S. labor force participation rate held steady at around 63% until the COVID-19 pandemic struck. It was 62.6% as of July 2023.
The rate varies over time based on social, demographic, and economic trends.
Global labor force participation has shown a steady decline since 1990.
Bringing into the US totally ignorant people who know nothing but how to use a cell phone and wait for the gov’t to hand o ut money is not the way to build a workforce unless you need shovel operators.
Is the government still paying people not to work? Is it racist to expect the low skilled people already here to chip in? How long before the “newcomers” decide they want on the gravy train like the layabouts we already have? This has nothing to do with labor or jobs, but everything to do with importing people who will accept communism like those idiots south of the border that somehow keep it going time after time. Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, and counting. The School of the Americas has done its job.
I’m sure the labor shortage has nothing to do with 60+ million aborted babies over several decades.
Will any ‘immigrants’ not also need goods and services increasing the demand for labor?
If a population of X needs the productive output of more than X people then there is a structural problem not a quantity problem.
It’s like the person who thinks he’s stepping on the brake but is actually stepping on the gas. As the car goes faster and faster he presses harder and harder until he jumps the curb and rams into the strip mall.
B.S. This is a narrative pushed by the government supported by the Chamber of Commerce crowd (in both parties) in order to bring in more cheap labor. We have plenty of people to work but we excuse them from doing so and instead keep them uneducated and give them victim-hood status. They also want to bring in people who are more likely to vote as directed.
The fact is that many of the current citizens are getting too “uppity” so our government dictators want to bring in a new citizenry that is more easily controlled. They can count on the reliable immigration “scholars” to publish articles and charts to support their position.
Uneducated, illiterate, non-English speaking Guatemalans are not going to fix the harm COVID penalties have done to the workforce of doctors, scientists, pilots, etc.
Close the borders for the next 50-100 years, expel the invaders, and assimilate the rest. Period.
“Labor shortage” is a dog whistle for ‘American wages are still too high’.
“This followed a poll showing that four out of five Americans support bipartisan cooperation on immigration that would address labor shortages and inflation.”
In case you missed it, that’s utter bullshit.
“The US is facing a labor shortage”
Give a specific example of an employer by name and address and job opening by requirement and compensation.
Natural immunity nurse, get your Covid jab or get lost.
That indicates there is no nursing shortage.
As we become a more and more socialist country, every warm body (working or not) incurs a cost to society through government paid schools, medicine, roads, food stamps, housing and just the general misery of more and more crowding. I doubt the labor value of an unskilled immigrant covers that cost so that we come out poorer for each one that comes in.
No, stop paying Americans to not work and deport ALL Illegals.