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In Japan, plummeting university enrollment forecasts what’s ahead for the U.S.

The Hechinger Report

Even with declining selectivity, more than 40 percent of private universities here — there are 603, along with 179 publics — aren’t filling their government-allocated enrollment quotas. There will be a 10 percent drop in the number of high school graduates from 2026 to 2037, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

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‘Praying that my health holds out’: Many senior citizens expect to die with college loan debts

The Hechinger Report

For three-quarters of federal borrowers 65 and older, it’s money they borrowed for their own educations and have been paying off for decades the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, found. That’s a situation about to get much worse.