The slowly growing U.S. economy could soon get a boost from an unlikely source: low-skilled workers without college educations, new research suggests.
While the conventional wisdom may be that workers with lower skills are a drag on the economy, Harvard University economics professor Dale Jorgenson said their absence from the labor force since the Great Recession has actually been holding back economic growth. But now they are returning, according to government data, and Jorgenson said they will fill a void, helping the economy grow at a faster clip over the next decade.
