The American labor force is becoming less American.
newly released data Center for Immigration Studies sounds alarm over decline in US labor force by showing low native american are joining the workforce – with men representing the largest decline seen in decades.
“The share of US-born men of working age (16 to 64) in the labor force increased from 11 percent in April 1960 to 17 percent in April 2000 and to 22 percent in April 2024,” the analysis found.
“Among ‘prime-age’ US-born men (25 to 54), the group most likely to work, the share in the labor force was 4 percent in April 1960, 9 percent in 2000, and 12 percent in 2024.”
The study concluded that 43 million men and women – those born in the US and aged 16 to 64 – were not working as of last April, an increase of 8.5 million from 2000.
And those numbers don’t include the “9.7 million immigrants who are not in the labor force” or the “5.8 million unemployed immigrants and the U.S.-born.”
pool of unused labor This is rampant in the US, the study said, “challenging the argument that labor shortages necessitate reliance on illegal immigration.”
The study also found that from 1960 to 2024, the number of US-born working-age men who are not in the labor force has increased by 13.2 million.
Meanwhile, the number of working age immigrant male Participation in the workforce increased by 14.1 million during the same period.
“Focusing only on US-born men without a bachelor’s degree and excluding teenagers still finds that the share in the labor force (20 to 64) will increase from 7 percent in 1960 to 16 percent in 2000 and 22 percent in 2024. Has happened,” the study found.
The states that saw the largest increases in the number of working-age men out of the workforce were Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Alaska, Florida, New Jersey, Mississippi, North Carolina and California.
The study also said fewer women have joined the workforce since 2000, a trend that briefly reversed after the pandemic.
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