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G.I. Bill Failing Veterans?

Posted May 13th 2008 9:08AM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Iraq, Military, Education


Congress is voting this week on expanding the G.I. Bill dramatically, reports the AP. As you can see in this MTV News report, the costs of education have risen so sharply that a lot of soldiers wind up only getting a small portion of their tuition covered. One Marine reservist got just $282 a month toward his community college education when he returned from Iraq. According to MTV:


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