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Re:A Guaranteed Income for Every American by ericd on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:30PM (#11839001)
"People under 21 years of age made up over a quarter of the U.S. population (27.1%)" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...)

So the population over 21 is about 230M.

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Re:A Guaranteed Income for Every American by mac01021 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:43PM (#11839047)
Hmm... That's a higher fraction than I expected. It could be much lower 20 years from now.
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Re:A Guaranteed Income for Every American by ericd on Saturday June 04, 2016 @10:45PM (#11839383)
Yeah, very well could be if the birth rate drops or life expectancy keeps rising.
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