 And month after month, a lot of those new workers are immigrants. Since the pandemic, the foreign-born workforce has grown about three times as fast as the native-born workforce. Jason Furman, who was a top economist in the Obama White House, says it's largely thanks to those hardworking immigrants that the economy has been able to keep growing the way it has. If we didn't have immigrants in this country, the workforce would actually be shrinking. We would lose jobs every month.