The reality is that tech education is free. You don’t need one dollar to get a good tech education. You can start with Khan Academy. You can get a free Tech education from Khanacademy.org available to all and there are several others as well. Then if you pass a test (which is not too hard), several companies like Groupon will put you through their own year long program and give you a very good starting salary (well above the national average) if you graduate. They even try to get people to stop wasting their time in college where the computer science education is often inferior and old. Education no longer costs anything.
Shrinking national populations in a world with a growing world-wide population does cause headaches. See Japan. The government pyramid scheme falls apart. You need a large group of people at the bottom to pay for the retirees. Especially the government retirees who retire earlier and have far richer benefits.
Our government could move the retirement age back, but they would rather increase the population. The government knows that the issue is, working pop vs. retired pop ratio. So you could solve the problem by leaving the same people working a year longer. Instead they prefer to bring in more people. Remember the folks making the decision don’t like their benefits delayed or reduced.
We have moved the retirement age back (for me it is 67 years old); between that and ignoring inflation they will save a lot of money.
I understand there is opportunity for those who want it; with our urban populations the problems run much deeper. Too many are a semi-literate population without any work ethic at all; they have never seen a breadwinner provide for a family (for several generations at this point). They’ve been reduced to such a low state by the culture of dependency that they are extremely difficult to motivate; the best most hope for is a token position with no expectations.