Labor force relativity

Published December 16, 2022 4:10am ET



The number of empty jobs employers are trying to fill has fallen from a record-high 11.9 million in March to 10.3 million. Good progress, but that is more than twice the 5 million job openings that were normally available pre-pandemic.

Corporate America and its allies in Congress want you to believe that the only possible way to fill all those job openings is to increase immigration. The Chamber of Commerce has even asked Congress to double the number of immigrants admitted every year, even as President Joe Biden has opened the floodgates to release about 100,000 illegal immigrants into the country every month.

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