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The U.S. fertility rate has been below the replacement level (2.1 children per woman of childbearing age) since the mid-2000s. This will create significant issues for Social Security, which relies on a healthy workforce to fund the older generations after they retire.
Immigration as a
Potential Solution
Together, all these factors point to a declining workforce. However, there is an important piece of the puzzle that we could come together on to address this issue. We need to have an immigration policy that provides pathways to living and working
in the United States. This would provide a large pool of talent for the labor market as a whole and allow people to develop their talents to benefit the broader human race.
To address emerging labor force challenges, North Carolina leaders must leverage lessons learned from the COVID crisis to develop sound policies, practices, and procedures to minimize population exposure risks and mitigate loss of life
in future public health crises. They also must strategically deploy funds from the state drug-abuse intervention action plan and the opioid settlement in counties with high drug-abuse death rates (NCDHHS, 2023c; CORE-NC, n.d.). More specifically, they should develop place-based, whole- community health interventions in
these communities to address the lack of access to affordable housing, good jobs, and quality health care — the social determinants of health that often lead to a cycle of despair, chronic health conditions, and premature disability and death
( Johnson, Bonds, & Parnell, 2022).
Pursuing these strategies is essential for ensuring North Carolina has the talent to support and sustain its newfound prosperity.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James H. Johnson, Jr., PhD is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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