Lack of Workers in US ‘Bigger Threat’ Than Inflation, Walsh Says

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said the US will eventually need to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, calling the lack of available workers to fill jobs a “bigger threat” to the economy than inflation.

“We don’t have enough workers in the United States of America to fill all the job openings that are out there,” Walsh said Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC. “It’s a bigger threat to our economy than inflation is at this point, than a recession, because we need to fill these jobs.”

Walsh pointed to immigration reform as a long-term solution to the issue. Lawmakers need to ...