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Apparently, the U.S. is shrinking. Well, not really. But excluding migration, if recent patterns of birth and death were to hold constant over the long term, population trends in the U.S. would be on the decline. What’s more, this isn’t a recent trend. In fact, it’s been true for much of the past 2 decades: […]http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/images/legacy/pop-sm.jpg