Predictable:
Between 2005 and 2022, the US immigrant population grew nearly 30% to over 46 million people, according to the US Census Bureau. As of 2022, foreign-born Americans make up 13.9% of the overall population.
Meanwhile, native-born Americans are having fewer kids, while many older individuals are aging out of the workforce, further widening the labor gap in the country.
“It already is coming to a head, but people are going to realize there’s no option except probably to relax immigration policies,” Wright said.
The American semiconductor boom faces a massive obstacle: A lack of immigrants (msn.com)
(The author of the story has a BA in Communications and sports journalism, a minor in English, and did a study abroad in Italy.)
