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Now that Chinese universities are no longer free, and graduates are no longer assured a comfortable government job (the public sector is shrinking), more and more families are deciding that educating their children doesn't make financial sense.
Moreover, the daily papers are constantly shrinking the space available for comic strips, which means that it's impossible to stretch out artistically.
(And the difference, as Jodie Allen pointed out in Slate a while back can be fully accounted for by the ironic fact that government spending--which is part of GDP--grew in the Reaganite '80s and is shrinking in the Clintonite '90s.)
As for those shrinking violets Matalin and Carville, Prudie has a hunch they have knockdown drag-out fights about their different affiliations.
But skeptics pointed out that there are few openings for low-skilled workers (since the government is shrinking), and unions objected to giving welfare recipients preference in the competition for those openings.