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Over the past few years, there have been much higher rates of immigration than had previously been projected. In 2019, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)—which is tasked with providing independent, nonpartisan analysis of economic and budgetary issues to support the Congressional budget process—estimated that net immigration in 2023 would total one million people. Now that 2023 has passed, the CBO has estimated that net immigration in 2023 was actually closer to 3.3 million. That net increase in immigrants can significantly affect the labor market by altering the supply of available workers. With the increase, it may be a good time