The United States is in a transitional economic moment, moving from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic through a period of recovery to a more traditional economic expansion. Things are trending in the right direction: inflation is slowly coming down, gas prices are decreasing, we have record job creation, consumer spending is high and we are rebuilding supply chains and manufacturing hubs domestically. While the Biden administration's economic policies have helped fix roads and bridges and foster remarkable small business creation, there is a big opportunity for continued economic expansion; we must find more workers.
Remarkably, there are currently more jobs than workers, which means businesses cannot grow to their full potential because our current labor force cannot meet market demand. The solution is obvious: We must immediately increase the size of our workforce. To bring America to a soft economic landing in which we can keep lowering inflation and strengthening our economy, we must provide a path for immediate legal status to the 11 million undocumented workers who already here — and offer them a path to citizenship.
