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Why immigrants are America’s superpower

Dollar & Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast

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The Costs of Immigration in the US

In India, I do a lot of work on the Chinese economy and certain amount on the Japanese economy as well. These are the second and third largest economies in the world after the United States. And they're facing really serious labor force decline. It's already started in Japan. Actually the working age population is peaked in China and it's going to start to decline. So that really affects their economic prospects - what you were just describing about the US. Sometimes suspect immigration is our superpower basically.

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