Without immigrants, America's job growth would have stalled
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
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But it's still not enough to replace all the baby boomers who are aging out of the workforce. Which is why immigration has been so important for the economy.
The businesses in Dayton, Ohio know this all-too-well.
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| 0:00.0 | It was a shocking moment. |
| 0:02.4 | In this month's debate with Vice President Harris, |
| 0:04.8 | former President Donald Trump made the stunning claim |
| 0:07.8 | that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. |
| 0:11.8 | And this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame. |
| 0:15.4 | Vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has also repeated the false claims and even |
| 0:20.6 | appeared to admit that they were lies on CNN State of the Union. |
| 0:24.7 | If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention |
| 0:31.1 | to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do, |
| 0:34.5 | Dana. |
| 0:35.5 | Because you've got... |
| 0:36.5 | Using dehumanizing language to describe immigrants is not new for either Trump or Vance. |
| 0:41.9 | They've called immigrants animals and criminals and accused them of poisoning the blood of |
| 0:46.4 | the country. |
| 0:48.0 | The summer, in a moment more focused on policy than falsehoods, Vance Quiz Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about why |
| 0:55.9 | the U.S. had become so dependent on foreign-born workers. |
| 1:02.5 | Rather than bringing in a large number of new immigrants, why not try to boost wages in a way that brings some |
| 1:08.0 | of those workers off the sidelines? |
| 1:10.2 | That seems to be much better focus from my perspective. |
| 1:12.8 | But the US has been bringing workers off the sidelines and wages have been going up. |
| 1:18.1 | The share of Americans in the workforce today is the highest it's been in decades, |
| 1:22.3 | but that is still not enough to replace all the baby |
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