The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2025

It’s a broader economic one. International enrollment, as we said, dropped 12 percent during Trump’s first term, and now we’re heading toward a 15 percent drop in the number of 18-year-olds by 2039. And as we said earlier, they also tend to pay full tuition. So they subsidize tuition that American students pay.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

The impact of this is economic decline, Jeff Strohl, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said bluntly. By 2039, this estimate shows, there will likely be 650,000, or 15 percent, fewer of them per year than there are now. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Jon] People stop having babies during economic downturns. By 2039, there will be 15 percent fewer 18-year-olds per year than there are now. It has to, in the end, have an economic impact on the town. It changed the game when it comes to job security, and it led many young adults to delay marriage and kids.

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