Not enough people in America are working. Out of every hundred working age adults across the country, only 62 are either working or actively seeking work.

If America is to increase workforce participation, state leaders need to get serious about welfare reform. More state governors need to follow the example of Arkansas’ governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and pass laws to ensure more stringent work requirements for those on welfare programs.

US workforce participation rates have fallen sharply over the past twenty years. So much so that in some states, such as my own Mississippi, almost half of all working age adults, 46 percent, have opted out of the labor market.

At the same time, the number of job openings has soared. At the end of last year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were an astounding 9 million job openings. (RELATED: DOUGLAS CARSWELL: DEI Is Destroying American Universities)

With so many unfilled jobs in America, and so many Americans not prepared to take them, immigrants have been flooding in – legally and illegally – to fill them.

Perhaps if Americans are serious about reducing immigration, we need to have a serious conversation about why so many Americans are apparently unwilling to take on the........

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