QOTD -- No Immigration? No Retirement For Grandma!

 

"Don’t want more immigrants in this country? Then tell grandma she can never retire.

"As I’ve noted before, immigrants are driving the U.S. economic boom. That is: The United States has escaped recession, hiring growth has exceeded expectation, and inflation has cooled faster than predicted — all largely because immigration has boosted the size of the U.S. labor force. Don’t just take my word for it; ask the Federal Reserve chair or Wall Street economists.  [snip]

"Yet, somehow, the Trumpy right argues that greedy, freeloading immigrants are simultaneously stealing both our jobs and our precious tax dollars. In reality, they’re beefing up both." -- WaPo's Catherine Rampell's opening and closing words on what immigration means to our booming economy (thanks, Biden!).  Sadly, too many Americans respond to Christofascist/ White Nationalist fear mongering, led by the Malignant Loser, and abetted by a "mainstream media" more concerned with shallow, short attention span sensationalism than drilling facts about immigration into the heads of the American public. The op/ ed contains a lot of those facts about immigration and the workforce that rarely seem to find a place in the discussion.  Good read, and information to pass along.