Half the cumulative jobs added since the start of the Great Recession have gone to foreign born workers. As of August 2018, 4,006 jobs added went to the foreign born while native born workers accumulated only additional 4,415 jobs. This happened despite the fact that foreign born workers only amount to 14.80% of the Total Civilian Non-Institutional Population - the population eligible to work.
In other words, much of the economic recovery went to the foreign born while a significant chunk of those who disappeared from the workforce are native born.
Much of this took place during the eight years of the Obama presidency when native born workers gained 6 million jobs and foreign born workers gained over 4 million jobs.
A lot of the gains for native born workers happened in the later years of the Obama presidency. Indeed, when Trump announced his presidential candidacy in May 2015, native born workers had gained around only 237 thousand jobs while foreign born workers had gained almost 2 million jobs.
Since Trump assumed the presidency in January 2017, native born workers have gained an additional 4 million jobs while foreign born workers gained over 1 million jobs.
Sources: St. Louis Federal Reserve
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