“This student, like many others, isn’t just responding to an immediate economic calculation. He’s also caught in an invisible (and increasingly visible) demographic force: America is running out of people his age. Even if colleges fixed their cost and value proposition tomorrow — even if tuition dropped and job prospects improved — there would still be fewer students like him to fill seats. We are hitting peak 18-year-old, and the decline is just beginning.”
Might be the unintelligible headline.
Literally just needed to day “peak number of 18 year olds” and, suddenly, wow! A real phrase that makes sense!
Possibly. It seemed like an obvious play on peak oil to me, but I guess not everybody got it