Immigration and the economy

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For most of the past half-century, baby boomers — those born after World War Two and before 1965 — have been the main driver of the nation’s expanding workforce, but now that they’re heading into retirement only two groups of workers are projected to grow over the next two decades: immigrants and those whose parents are first-generation immigrants. “The most important component of the growth in the working-age population over the next two decades will be the arrival of future immigrants,” a new report by the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., concluded.

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