Fifty-six percent of Americans think they earn a four-year term College degree not worth it, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal and NORC at the University of Chicago.

This belief has translated into lower college enrollment among young Americans over the past decade, largely because fewer young people choose higher education: about a million of them, for Pew Research Center.

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