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Expert: U.S. population to hit 1 billion by 2100

Yahoo! Buzz Digg Newsvine Reddit FacebookWhat's this?By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY If the USA seems too crowded and its roads too congested now, imagine future generations: The nation's population could more than triple to 1 billion as early as 2100. That's the eye-popping projection that urban and rural planners, gathered today for their annual meeting in Las Vegas, are hearing from a land-use expert.