The arrival of the pandemic and foreign workers

It is well known that the sudden arrival of the global Coronavirus pandemic affected most sectors of society. For instance, sectors such as entertainment, recreation, hotel industry, culinary and the service industry lost most of their workers because they did not have the necessary resources to pay wages during the health crisis.

Speaking specifically about local workers, thousands of foreign workers lost their jobs in the US due to the arrival of the pandemic and many of them decided to leave the country.

Large numbers of immigrant workers belong to important sectors of the US food supply chain, such as agriculture or the food packaging and transportation industry. They have had more stability than other sectors of the industry that have nothing to do with food production.

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California loses a large amount of immigrants

The University of California Merced Community and Labor Center recently conducted a research, using information from the US Census Bureau database. The report outlines the decline in the immigrant population of California during the health crisis caused by COVID-19.

It is important to clarify that before the sanitary emergency, in 2019, California had approximately 10.3 million immigrants. This number decreased 6.2% and now California has approximately 9.7 million immigrants.

Adding to that, the research reveals that California’s economic growth has been one of the lowest after the arrival of the pandemic, showing that foreign workers are a key piece for the country to overcome the current crisis.

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The immigrant population also declined across the US

California was the state that lost the most immigrants amid the global pandemic, but large numbers of immigrants also left other states due to the health crisis.

In fact, the immigrant population across the country was more than 45 million in 2019, but this number decreased during 2020 to approximately 44.1 million. This means that there was a 2.6% reduction in the immigrant population due to the health crisis.

This figure exceeds the Great Recession (2007-2009), when the immigrant population decreased 1.6% thanks to the economic crisis that the country was going through at that time. This figure shows that the crisis brought by the pandemic affected the economic stability of the local market and the productivity of the US to a greater extent.

It is important to clarify that the study reveals that the decline among immigrant communities refers to foreigners over 35 years. The number of immigrants between the ages of 18 and 34 did not change dramatically during the health crisis, but the immigrant population between the ages of 35 and 65 declined substantially.

One of the conclusions of the research is that “A decline of US immigrants may have far-reaching consequences (…) Pandemic-related immigrant population decline will accelerate already-declining population growth, and create greater challenges for employer efforts to fill jobs and policymakers’ efforts to stimulate economic growth following the recession. ”

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