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Higher ed got its credit report card, and it’s not straight A’s

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News, Business

4.68.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Fitch Ratings issued a warning this week that U.S. colleges and universities are likely to encounter economic headwinds — bond investors beware. Declining enrollment, higher wages for faculty and staff and 2008 recession-era debt are all at play. In this episode, why some colleges may be affected more than others. Plus, artificial intelligence is already behind the scenes in Hollywood, rent-free housing comes with a cost and an electronic music store bides its time.

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Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionizing millions of businesses worldwide, covering all your sales channels,

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from the Shopfront Ready POS system to its all-in-one e-commerce platform. Shopify even gets

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you selling across social media marketplaces like Facebook,

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Instagram and Tik-Tock.

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It's time to get serious about selling and get Shopify today.

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Hey everybody it's Kai you're looking for a way to show off your love of

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this winter while making it clear that you support public service journalism. Check out all of our thank you gifts and make your year in donation now at marketplace.org

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slash donate.

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In which once again economic headlines give way to economic stories.

1:16.4

From American public media, this is marketplace. Nice.

1:32.0

Thursday today, December the 7th. Good as always to have you long, everybody.

1:34.2

It is a fact that every week all across this country,

1:38.1

American workers file for unemployment benefits

1:40.4

for the first time.

1:41.8

Last week, it was precisely 220,000 people who lost their jobs, basically steady,

1:47.6

and I'll note here that we'll get the big picture November jobs report tomorrow. But the point is that every one of those people filing is a story, a story of

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