The U.S. birth rate has been declining since the Great Recession, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that problem is about to rear its head in college enrollment numbers.
Birth rate declines started in 2007, and while the CDC shows some years with slight improvements, it's been a downward trend for almost 20 years. With this year's graduating high school class coming from 2007, colleges will have a smaller pool of potential students to draw from.
