About 18% of U.S.-born men aged 20 to 64 are not part of the labor force, which is relevant to the immigration debate “because one of the arguments for allowing in so many legal immigrants, or even tolerating illegal immigration, is that there are not enough workers,” said author Steven A. Camarota.

Camarota authored a new study on the decades-long increase in the share of Americans not in the labor force and the implications for immigration policy.

“If the argument is that we don’t have enough of those workers, what that ignores is all the people on the economy’s sidelines who themselves are overwhelmingly people who don’t have a college education,” Camarota told The Washington Times.

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