global economic decline around the end of the first decade of the 21st century

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Thanks to birth declines, we have too many college seats. Leaders must make hard choices in response.

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Three recent studies show an alarming decline in the number of givers over the past decade.

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Gas Heat

A small foundation uses focused academic, media, and activist grants to redirect a policy debate