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From KQED.

From KQED, public radio in San Francisco. I'm Michael Krasny.

Coming up, we'll speak with Matthew Iglesias.

He's the co-founder and senior correspondent for Vox,

an author of a new book called One Billion Americans, The Case for Thinking Bigger. In it, he argues

that the United States has lost the ambition and capacity to compete against China and other global

powers, and he's got a bold proposal to rectify that. Encourage more immigration and births to triple the size of our population.

We'll hear his case and why he says he's against the eco-pessimism on the left and the nostalgia politics and cultural pessimism on the right.

That's next after this news. News. Welcome to this morning's forum. I'm Michael Krasny. There are 330 million people in the United States,

and Vox co-founder and economics reporter Matthew

Iglesias says we should add 670 million more. That's the subject of his new book

1 billion Americans, the case for thinking bigger in which he argues that with a bigger

population, the U.S. could maintain its status as a world's superpower, increase its wealth, and improve

Americans' standards of living. We'll dig into his argument and what it would mean for domestic

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