data to back it up.<\/a><\/p>\nAmerica\u2019s younger workers \u2013 recent college graduates \u2013 not only suffer from high unemployment, but those who can find work often wind up in jobs for which they are overqualified and earning wages that make it difficult to pay off their college educations.\u00a0 They also are potentially losing out in hundreds of thousands of dollars in earnings over their career, as they are starting out lower on the economic ladder than they would in a healthy economy.<\/p>\n
Those under-utilized and underpaid workers should be the answer to our labor needs, but cheap labor interests and the politicians who serve them, would rather have access to more immigrant labor. Given the opportunity, America\u2019s beleaguered younger working would be paying into the Social Security Trust Fund for the next four decades or so.<\/p>\n
The data also show that many workers at the older end of the spectrum are delaying retirement, which means they will not be drawing Social Security benefits for quite as long as anticipated.<\/p>\n
Thus, an immigration policy that allows younger Americans to fill the jobs they\u2019re qualified to do, at decent wages, coupled with older workers staying in the labor force longer, could well result in both the alleged labor shortage problem and the Social Security solvency problem solving themselves.