The 1990s saw the biggest U.S. population boom in U.S. history. And growth is still accelerating. This is truly astounding news coming three decades after widespread determination that the country was mature and probably already overpopulated.
No wonder Americans in the 1990s became increasingly alarmed at their deteriorating quality of life due to sprawl, congestion, overcrowded schools, lost open spaces and increasing restrictions on their individual liberty in order to handle the new population explosion!
Because this population boom was almost entirely engineered by federal-forced-growth policies that are still in place, the Census Bureau states that Americans will suffer this kind of rapid congestion every decade into the future unless Congress changes the policies.