GI Bill

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/8/2022
  

  How America Short-Changed Black WWII Vets, and Why it Still Matters

  by Matthew Delmont

  Black servicemembers immediately understood the insulting dismissal of their contributions to the war against fascism. But their exclusion, by legislative design and administrative discrimination, from the postwar benefits white veterans enjoyed was the longer-lasting harm. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  9/11/2020
  

  Many Black World War II Veterans Were Denied Their GI Bill Benefits. Time To Fix That.

  by Robert Levinson

  Fixing the biased legacy of the GI Bill could send a powerful message and, more importantly, actually repair some of the damage caused by racism that still affects black Americans today.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
  9/8/2020
  

  “Attacking the Concept of Debt”: Challenging Predatory Student Loans Runs Up Against a Long History

  A Harvard Law School initiative to check predatory student lending must contend with the entanglement of federal student lending programs and for-profit education providers, which dates to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) of 1944. 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  After Those Cruel Wars Were Over: Lessons from Two Economic Recoveries

  by Hugh Rockoff and Mark Wilson

  An economist and economic historian argue that a well-planned response to the economic disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic could result in economic recoveries like those that followed the two World Wars.

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• SOURCE: Marketplace
  5/13/2020
  

  What Postwar America Can Tell Us About Today’s Record Unemployment

  Economic historians Caroline Fohlin and Gary Richardson discuss the nature of government support for employment to preserve World War II's economic gains. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/2020
  

  Democrats Have the Right Idea of what COVID-19 Relief Should Look Like

  by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

  The failure to create a better social safety net has left us unprepared to deal with covid-19.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  June 24, 2019
  

  How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans

  by Erin Blakemore

  The sweeping bill promised prosperity to veterans. So why didn’t black Americans benefit?