With zero net immigration, Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok estimates, the U.S. economy would be able to sustainably add only about 24,000 nonfarm jobs a month, compared with an average 155,000 from 2015 through 2024.
Here is the full WSJ article. It really helps an economy to have both aggregate supply and aggregate demand increasing at the same time.
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