Job Growth: Workforce and Job-Creation Goal

job growth: Photo Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images In a statement on the White House website, President Donald Trump announced a bold plan to create 25 million new American jobs in the next decade and return to 4 percent annual economic growth, according to Huffington Post Canada. But the analysis from the Economic Cycle Research Institute ECRI says there's an obstacle to reaching such a fast rate of job growth in America The share of Americans who are in the workforce is shrinking, meaning there are fewer young people coming into the workforce to replace aging people. A new analysis says the only way President Donald Trump can meet his job-creation goal is to increase the U.S.'s rate of immigration or encourage more women to join the workforce. Men's participation in the workforce declined for decades after World War II, but women entering the workforce made up the difference. But U.S. women's workforce participation peaked in the 1990s and has been slowly declining. Today, that isn't happening, and that's limiting America's economic potential, says a new analysis from ECRI. Chart ECRI In the post-war decades in which the Baby Boomers grew up, this wasn't a problem because even though workforce participation for men was already falling women were entering the workforce, more than making up the difference. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.