How Immigration Can Bolster an Aging Workforce

Grow the Economy? Not With These Immigration Restrictions

The new budget law counts on better economic growth to help increase revenue, but a shrinking workforce will make that difficult.

How immigration can bolster an aging workforce

As a nation’s workforce grows older, innovation and delayed retirement can keep economic gears turning. But so can immigration. In this episode, “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal and ADP’s Nela Richardson visit Peckham, a neighborhood in South London that’s long been home to generations of immigrants from all over the world, to understand how newcomers can offset an aging workforce.Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscri…

Newcomers to Canada Caused 11 to 21 Percent of Housing Price Increases: Department of Immigration

Immigrants arriving in Canada led to a rise in housing prices, accounting for 11 percent of the price increase in smaller towns and 21 percent in cities of more than 100,000 people, according to the Immigration Department. According to the report “Immigration and Housing Prices Across Municipalities in Canada,” municipal data across Canada from 2006 to 2021 suggest that over the study period, “the rise in the influx of new immigrants, who arrive…