Much here!!-----What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?

As the supply of young people dries up, towns built around America’s higher education system will learn what happens when the students stop coming - kyla scanlon
America is facing its next Rust Belt moment — but it’s not our steel mills shutting down, it’s our education mills. 

• The First Rust Belt was shaped by deindustrialization, globalization, and a changing demand for natural resources. 
• The Second Rust Belt is shaped by falling birth rates, eroded institutional trust, and an aging population. 

But the local impact could be the same: entire regions hollowed out, communities that feel abandoned, and another generation left behind by the very institutions that promised them a future.

What steel was to the 20th century, education has been to the 21st — an economic engine now running out of fuel...