300
Million Mark
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
11-12PM ET
Sometime in the next month, a baby will be born, an
umbilical cord cut, and the population of the United States will hit
300 million. It's been a long time coming, since this was a vast continent
of tepees and forest trails.
But now, uniquely among the world's richest nations, America's population is surging. Only India and China are bigger. We hit 200 million in 1967. 300 million any day now. And 400 million is projected in less than 40 years.
On the emptying Great Plains, they may be wondering "where's the boom?" But on the coasts, the south and west, Americans are living it.
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As the US population hits 300 million, hear what that number means for the country.
·
William Frey, Visitng Fellow at Brookings Institution and Research Professor
at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.
· Martha Farnsworth Riche, Fellow at the Center for the Study
of Economy and Society at Cornell University and former Director of
the U.S. Census Bureau (1994 and 1998).
· Victoria Markham, Environmental Scientist and Director of the
Center for Environment and Population.
· Michael Mandel, Chief Economist at BusinessWeek magazine.