Financial Aid in the News

Efforts To Expand G.I. Bill Gain Ground In Congress (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

"Momentum is building in Congress for a bill that would significantly expand tuition benefits for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "The legislation, which would cover up to the full cost of a four-year education at a public college, may be attached to a war-spending bill that lawmakers are expected to take up soon. Supporters of the tuition-benefits bill, S 22, say today's troops deserve the same educational opportunities that the original G.I. bill provided to veterans after World War II. They argue the new bill would benefit not only veterans, but the economy as well."

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