The U.S. economy keeps beating expectations, and immigration plays an outsized role in explaining this. A new report by the Washington Post delved into how the influx of people has strengthened the job market in a way that couldn't have been done with native workers only, boosting the country's post-pandemic rebound.
The outlet cites an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, which shows that half of the labor market's recent growth can be explained by foreign-born workers over the past year. And before that, the study said, it helped close the labor force gap created by the pandemic.
