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U.S. population keeps growing, but House of Representatives is same size as in Taft era

www.pewresearch.org U.S. population keeps growing, but House of Representatives is same size as in Taft era

The U.S. House of Representatives has one member for every 747,000 or so Americans – by far the highest population-to-representatives ratio of any developed democracy.

U.S. population keeps growing, but House of Representatives is same size as in Taft era

The U.S. House of Representatives has one voting member for every 747,000 or so Americans. That’s by far the highest population-to-representative ratio among a peer group of industrialized democracies, and the highest it’s been in U.S. history.

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