{"id":3620,"date":"2020-10-14T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:03:03","slug":"the-case-for-more-many-more-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"The case for more \u2014 many more \u2014 Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;If you survey Americans about how many children they want, on average they say about 2.5. That includes the ones like me who want six and the ones who want zero. But while people&nbsp;<em>want<\/em>&nbsp;2.5 kids on average, in practice they&nbsp;<em>have<\/em>&nbsp;fewer \u2014 about 1.72 in 2018, the book says. Increasing America\u2019s population needn\u2019t involve regression from modern liberal ideas. It would just require making it possible for people to get the thing that they already want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book\u2019s proposed policy changes are mostly changes at the margins \u2014 more immigration but not open borders, an expansion of public education to also provide free preschool and day care, subsidies and tax credits for parents, fixes to our housing and transportation policy so the cost of living isn\u2019t intolerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its simplicity \u2014 maybe because of its simplicity \u2014 it\u2019s compelling. Matt Yglesias thinks America is good and it\u2019d be good if everyone who\u2019d benefit the country was allowed to live hereand everyone who lived herewas able to have their ideal family size. And while that simple vision elides a lot of challenges \u2014 some of which are beyond its scope \u2014 its vision of America is at least worth rooting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/21449512\/matt-yglesias-one-billion-americans\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/21449512\/matt-yglesias-one-billion-americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you survey Americans about how many children they want, on average they say about 2.5. That includes the ones like me who want six and the ones who want zero. But while people want 2.5 kids on average, in practice they have fewer \u2014 about 1.72 in 2018, the book says. Increasing America\u2019s population needn\u2019t involve regression from modern liberal ideas. It would just require making it possible for people to get the thing that they already want.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s proposed policy changes are mostly changes at the margins \u2014 more immigration but not open borders, an expansion of public education to also provide free preschool and day care, subsidies and tax credits for parents, fixes to our housing and transportation policy so the cost of living isn\u2019t intolerable.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its simplicity \u2014 maybe because of its simplicity \u2014 it\u2019s compelling. Matt Yglesias thinks America is good and it\u2019d be good if everyone who\u2019d benefit the country was allowed to live here and everyone who lived here was able to have their ideal family size. And while that simple vision elides a lot of challenges \u2014 some of which are beyond its scope \u2014 its vision of America is at least worth rooting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[625,169],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-births","tag-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}