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Why US college students are worried about money and jobs

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Radiology student Chris Martin feels the financial strain of studying and starting a young family.

Radiology student Chris Martin feels the financial strain of studying and starting a young family.

PHOTO: JACOB LANGSTONG/NYTIMES

Alyce McFadden

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Colleges and universities across the United States are under extreme pressure, financially and politically. Their students are feeling stressed out, too.

Students are juggling not just homework, but often jobs and families as well. Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how they study and how they are taught. Seniors worry about being sent into an uncertain world after graduation. On top of everything else, students fret about the political turmoil swirling around them. And some are lonely.

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