Bloomberg Law
Feb. 14, 2019, 8:53 PM UTC

Immigrants May Not Be Solution to Working-Age Population Decline

Laura D. Francis
Laura D. Francis
Reporter

Projections of future immigration patterns show a dramatic increase in the U.S. population, but not a significant impact on the working-age population.

The argument that immigration is needed to increase the number of workers in the U.S. is plausible, as immigrants tend to be younger when they come to the country, said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies. But the ability to do that is “quite limited,” he said at a CIS event Feb. 14.

If immigration follows Census Bureau projections, 59 percent of the U.S. population will be “working age,” between 18 and 64, ...

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