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The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges — and the economy 

The Hechinger Report

The impact of this is economic decline, Jeff Strohl, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said bluntly. We have a lot of people moving from economic producers to economic consumers, and there just arent enough people coming up behind them to replace them.

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