White House Executive Orders on immigration and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) highlight the need for reforms in both policy domains. But the current directives, owing to the well-documented demographic turbulence we are facing, threaten our nation’s ability to win the war for talent and remain competitive in an ever-changing global marketplace.
We need a more humane and evidenced-based approach to immigration. Looking through the prism of the past 100 years, our national rate of population growth has been on a downward trajectory for the past six decades, as illustrated in Figure 1. After peaking in 1960 (18.5%), the U.S. population growth rate has increased more slowly in every decade since. Strikingly, the U.S. population grew by only 7.4% between 2010 and 2020, which was the second slowest rate of growth in our nation’s history behind the 7.3% growth rate during the Great Depression.
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