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Unskilled Labor Shortage: The Facts

• The Department of Labor estimates that half of the jobs created in the next five years will require no more than a high school education.
  • In 1960 half of all American men dropped out of high school to look for unskilled work. Today only 10% do.
  • 50% of all the new jobs created in the last decade were filled by foreign-born workers.

• A Pew Study highlights the crisis:
  • Annual need for unskilled foreign workers: 500,000.
  • Visas issued annually to year-round unskilled workers: 5,000.

Losing immigrant labor would be devastating for the U.S. economy – for American businesses and the Americans who work for them.