… a point that receives far less attention than it should is the decline of immigration since Donald Trump came to office, which turned into a plunge with the coming of the pandemic:
Many immigrants are working age and highly motivated; their absence means that we shouldn’t have expected employment to maintain its old trend.
What Ever Happened to the Great Resignation?
by Paul Krugman
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opinion/great-resignation-employment.html
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中国人やインド人がいなければ、アメリカの科学技術は立ちいかなくなる。汚い仕事をする外国人がいなければ社会は立ちいかない。
アメリカの国力はそがれ、中国に追いつかれ、追い越されてゆく。