Less Immigrant Labor Across US Contributing To Price Hikes
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Just 10 miles from the Rio Grande, Mike Helle’s farm is so short of immigrant workers that he’s replaced 450 acres of labor-intensive leafy greens with crops that can be harvested by machinery. “In the short run, we are going to adjust to these shortages in the labor market through an increase in wages and in prices.” The labor issues are among several contributors to the highest inflation in 40 years in the United States — from supply chains mangled by the pandemic to a surge in energy and commodity prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Democrats — who control all branches of the federal government and more recently have been the party more friendly to immigration — haven’t tried to advance major legislation permitting more new residents to the country. “At some point we either decide to become older and smaller or we change our immigration policy,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist and former official in President George W. Bush’s administration who is president of the center-right American Action Forum. LM Otero via Associated Press “We’re feeling it and, if we’re feeling it at the end of the day as builders and developers, the consumer pays the price,” said Correa, who spoke from Pensacola, Florida, where he brought a construction crew as a favor to a client whose hasn’t been able to find laborers to fix a beach house damaged by Hurricane Sally in 2020.
History of this topic
Who will build new homes in Trump’s America?
CNN
The inflationary consequences of Trump's planned immigration crackdown
Salon
Less immigrant labor in US contributing to price hikes
Associated Press)
As Trump Faces Re-election, Officials Rush to Make It Tougher for Skilled Foreign Workers to Gain Visas
News 18Discover Related
)
)
)
