Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Opinion on rural America's need for immigrants, in the New York Times

Robert Leonard and Matt Russell write in their essay

Rural America has a growth problem. Business and industry desperately need workers, but the domestic labor pool is shallow, and the nation’s birthrate is slowing.

There’s no better place to help expand our economy than in rural communities like ours. We need smart public policy for sustained growth — and immigration reform would be a big part of it.

The Iowa Business Council, a group made up of representatives of the largest corporations in the state, have been asking for immigration reform for years to help solve our labor woes.

Plenty of research shows that flexible visa programs run federally or by the states could address this problem quickly.

Postscript:  The Guardian ran this story, headlined "It's five years since a white person Applied:  the immigrant workforce milking America's cows, on July 25, 2021.  This story on the perils of heat for farmworkers ran on NPR in mid-August.  

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