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

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Formerly part of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, the building houses classrooms and the Institute for Educational Research and Service. 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.

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

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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. This is becoming potentially a bigger problem,” said Siyan Liu, a Center for Retirement Research economist.