Capitol Media Services recently circulated an article by Howard Fischer in which he quotes two economists, Elliott Pollack and Don Wehbey, as saying that "the state (Arizona) and the country are headed toward what could be a severe shortage of people in the worf force." Their foundation for such a statement is a decline in the number of people of working age relative to the total population. In short, America is getting older without producing its own workers fast enough to replace retirees.
This could mean changes in immigration laws to facilitate the arrival of foreign workers, temporary or otherwise. It could also help the case of the millions of foreign workers now in the United States and hoping for some form of amnesty or immigration reform.
For translators, it means more people living together in the same communities and speaking more languages. In other words, more work is coming.
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