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A mother and son go from homeless to college

The Hechinger Report

Next, he’ll run for local political office, on the path to announcing a run for the White House, maybe in 2039. His first step will be to start a nonprofit in the Bronx to mentor young people. But halfway into Albany’s five-week summer orientation, meant to ease kids into the college experience, school was already harder than he expected.

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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

By 2039, this estimate shows, there will likely be 650,000, or 15 percent, fewer of them per year than there are now. An analysis by the higher education consulting firm Ruffalo Noel Levitz using the latest available census figures now projects another drop in the number of 18-year-olds beginning in 2033, after a brief uptick.

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