Immigrants Now 17% of the Workforce – According to an article in the National Journal, imÂmigÂrants now make up 13 perÂcent of the U.S. popÂuÂlaÂtion and 17 perÂcent of the workÂforce. The article is a discussion on an analysis done by the Pew Charitable Trust, which can be found here, as well as an interactive tool created by Pew to examine the breakdown of immigrant labor distribution across employment categories, which can be found here.
The data used by Pew to conduct their analysis comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010-13 American Community Survey data, so it is likely that these figures do not encompass the total effect of illegal immigrant labor in the workforce.
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