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U.S. continues to slip behind other countries in percentage of population with degrees

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was coming out of one of the worst recessions in its history, and Obama was both hopeful and solemn. That number won’t reach 60 percent until 2041, according to predictions by the Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit educational testing company that administers the GRE among other tests. Marcus reports the U.S. Today, the U.S.

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

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These findings sync up with another new report, released this month by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, or WICHE, which says that the number of 18-year-olds nationwide who graduate from high school each year and are therefore candidates for college will erode by 13 percent , or nearly half a million, by 2041.

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