The fourth quarter of 2023 shows 2.7 million more people working in the United States — 2.9 million more immigrants (legal and illegal) and 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans.
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While the numbers have continually rebounded from the lows of '20, there were still 183k fewer U.S.-born working in the 4th quarter of '23 than in the 4th quarter of '19, before Covid. The number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9m over '19.
The overall labor force participation rate of all U.S.-born adults (18 to 64) in the 4th quarter of 2023 of 77% roughly matches the pre-covid rate in 2019. But it was still below the prior peaks of 78.1% in 2006 and 79.2% in 2000.
At 75.6% in the 4th quarter of 2023, the labor force participation rate of U.S.-born men without a bachelor’s (18 to 64) has still not returned to the 76.3% it was in the fourth quarter of 2019, which was lower than the 80.5% in 2006 and the 82.6% in 2000.
Compared to the 1960s, when more than 90 percent of these working-age, less-educated U.S.-born men were in the labor force, the rate today is dramatically lower.
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