An Uncertain Future: How the Immigration Crackdown Threatens Massachusetts’ Labor Force

Combining demographic and labor market analysis with interviews conducted with people working in life sciences, healthcare, and construction, An Uncertain Future: How the Immigration Crackdown Threatens Massachusetts’ Labor Force highlights the impacts of restricting immigration on a state with one of the lowest native birth rates in the country.

Produced by Boston Indicators in collaboration with the MassINC Policy Center, the report explores how immigration restrictions will limit the state's ability to maintain its labor force, and notes how the state's touted "meds and eds" sectors, on which so much of the state's economic success is based, could also be uiquely vulnerable to restrictions to refugee and visa programs.