By Jon Marcus – The Washington Post, 01/22/2022
‘Slower economic growth. Continued labor shortages. Lower life expectancy. Higher levels of divorce. More demand for social services, but less tax revenue to pay for it…. A sharp and persistent decline in the number of Americans going to college — down by nearly a million since the start of the pandemic, according to newly released figures, and by nearly 3 million over the last decade — could alter American society for the worse, even as economic rival nations such as China vastly increase university enrollment, researchers warn…. Men in particular have disproportionately stopped going to college; undergraduate enrollment of men is down more than 10 percent since the start of the pandemic…. “What does that mean for the modern American family?…”
