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The Effects of Increasing 18 Year Olds on the Economy
In europe as a whole, the number of 18 year olds will only increase by about two % over the next decade. And the increase in britain is also quite a bit more rapid than in america. This kind of lump of young people was a huge problem for primary schools seven or eight years ago. But what's increasingly going to happen is that universities will omverly crowded. The other strange effect of this demographic bulge is that it makes the whole question of whether brexet was a good idea or a bad idea more complicated.
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