Short of Workers, U.S. Builders and Farmers Crave More Immigrants
As a tight labor market raises costs, employers say the need for low-wage help can’t be met by the declining ranks of the native-born.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/business/economy/immigration-labor-economy.html
If the United States were to cut off the flow of new immigrants, its working population would shrink to 166 million in 2035 from 173 million in 2015.
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It's high time the chickens came home to roost. For decades everyone in America has been living high on the hog thanks to our shadow slave-labor economies in construction and agriculture. Food is cheap and housing (was) cheaper because employers didn't have to pay legal wages to or treat their slaves with the same rights we accord to American workers. Producers benefited from increased sales volume, middle-class consumers benefited from lower prices. Unskilled and semi-skilled Americans, however, lost whatever gains they might have realized by seeing their jobs go to these immigrants and their wages decline, and the firms that wanted to play by the rules could not compete because - surprise, surprise - having to follow the law is more expensive than not. This cut into their profits and, ultimately, their market-share. That's why these sectors are now totally dependent on slave-labor. If you are having trouble attracting workers to your firm, raise wages or increase benefits. That's how it's supposed to work in a free-market. If you can't find workers then the price you are asking for labor is not the equilibrium market price. Raise wages until you fill your open positions. If you can't match skills to openings then you need to start to train your new hires. The private sector endlessly harps on about "free-markets" but, curiously, they never seem to want to have to operate under free-market principles when free-markets aren't working to their advantage.
