Addressing Obstacles to Opportunity for Foreign-Born Workers

We invite you to join us November 6 for a virtual convening about barriers foreign-born workers may experience in the labor market and how states are responding. To open the event, our staff will present Minneapolis Fed research on how occupational licensing can limit full labor force participation for foreign-born workers. We will also introduce our new Occupational Licensing Dashboard, which provides insight into the landscape of worker licensure in the United States. We are excited to share these findings and resources, as we believe that better understanding how the labor market functions for workers is a key part of the Minneapolis Fed’s mission of pursuing an economy that works for all of us.

Following the research presentation, a panel of subject matter experts from the government, nonprofit, and academic sectors will discuss what states are doing to better support foreign-born workers in the workforce. This conversation is timely for the Ninth Federal Reserve District this year, as the Minnesota Legislature just passed ongoing funding for an Office for New Americans, and the North Dakota Legislative Assembly created an Office for Legal Immigration.

We hope you will join us for this important conversation as we examine these issues on a local, state, and national level!

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