Darrell West

Brookings Institution

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Vice President and Director of the Center for Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and founding director of its Center for Technology Innovation

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In the late 1960's, Paul Ehrlich warned that a  Population Bomb  was creating so many people they wouldn't be able to feed themselves within 20 years.

Should Americans Be Having More Babies?

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