The US desperately needs no less than 27 million new jobs to soak up natural population and immigration growth and get us back to a traditional 5% unemployment rate.

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The natural birth rate in the USA has been below natural replacement rate for nearly a generation, and the USA has relied on massive immigration to continue population growth.

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