The United States continues to experience a labor shortage, spurring debate as to how immigrant labor contributes to this shortage. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 11 million jobs in the United States are currently unfilled.
The United States continues to experience a labor shortage, spurring debate as to how immigrant labor contributes to this shortage. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 11 million jobs in the United States are currently unfilled.
The U.S. economy is lacking more than a million immigrant workers who would be here if not for the pandemic and Trump-era cuts. That may be hurting industries that depend on immigrants, like trucking.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Employers in the U.S. are struggling to fill roughly 11 million open jobs