GI Bill Creates Barriers For Veterans Seeking College

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the GI Bill, helped turn a college education into a right of middle-class America. It covered the cost for millions of World War II veterans as compensation for having disrupted their lives to serve. Today, with tuition climbing and a college degree increasingly seen as the ticket to economic security, the promise of money for education is no less important to service members. For many, it is the reason they join. Yet his experience and those of other recent veterans suggest that in many cases, the road from combat to college can be riddled with potholes. Read more at:
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