U.S. decennial census data states that in 2010, immigrants made up 13% of the population, but 16% (23.1 million foreign-born persons in the civilian labor force) of the labor force (Singer, 2012). ... Immigrant workers are especially essential to the United States and also Russia (ranked second for destination country for immigration) because the U.S. population is aging rapidly as the baby boom cohort is entering old age and retirement. ...

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