On the assumption that people marry at age 24, About 10 million of those invisible infants would have married and would have had 10.8 million children of their own. Perhaps another 2 million babies would have been born out-of-wedlock.
Consequently, America is missing about 65.5 million people. That is more people than live in New York, Los Angeles, and an additional 127 of America’s largest cities.
The economic consequences of these missing people are staggering. One spreadsheet estimates that these people would have earned $5.7 trillion (assuming an average per capita income of $26,000 according to Census). They would have paid $1.4 trillion in taxes!
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