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Associated Press: A healthy US economy’s secret ingredient: Immigrant workers, eager to fill jobs
"A study by Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson, economists at the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, has concluded that over the past two years, new immigra…
U.S. News & World Report: What you need to know about the labor market
“'Faster population and labor force growth has meant that employment could grow more quickly than previously believed without adding to inflationary pressures,…
NBC News: How immigrants are helping boost the U.S. job market without affecting inflation
“Wendy Edelberg, a former Federal Reserve economist now serving as director of Brookings’ Hamilton Project, told NBC News the net effect of immigration on infl…
Bloomberg: Worried about the labor market overheating? Relax.
“In remarks Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that healing supply chains and a jump in immigration helped explain why — at least in the recent past — gro…
Time: Immigration is powering the U.S. economy
"In future years, the vitality of the U.S. population and economy will hinge on immigration policy decisions made now."
The Wall Street Journal: The jobs numbers aren’t adding up. Immigration helps explain why.
"'Lots and lots of people like me, every time they opened the employment report had in the back of their heads that anything above 100,000 is something out of …
Bloomberg: Fed’s Powell ready to support job market, even if it means lingering inflation
“It’s 'about not wanting the unemployment rate to get momentum,’ said former Fed economist Wendy Edelberg, director of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Pro…
Axios: How immigration is driving U.S. job growth
"New analysis from the Brookings Institution puts some hard numbers on the relationship between the rise in immigration and the labor market — finding an influ…
