Bloomberg(@business):Lower birth rates translates to fewer kids going to college down the line, and now schools are grappling with the demographic changes. "it's one percent decline one year and another 0.7% decline the next year, but it adds up," says @CarletonCollege Economics Professor Nathan Grawe. He tells @EenaRuffiniand @davidgura that "for institutions that don't have large endowments, which is most of them, that kind of contraction year after year after year can be really destabilizing, "

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Lower birth rates translates to fewer kids going to college down the line, and now schools are grappling with the demographic changes. "it's one percent decline one year and another 0.7% decline the next year, but it adds up," says @CarletonCollege Economics Professor Nathan Grawe. He tells @EenaRuffiniand @davidgura that "for institutions that don't have large endowments, which is most of them, that kind of contraction year after year after year can be really destabilizing, "