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= THE GI BILL =



The GI bill also know as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 was a bill that was made for veterans that returned from World War II. This bill primarily provided a opportunity for veterans to go to college, and to receive vocational education. The Gi bill also provided veterans with at least one year of unemployment compensation, and loans to help veterans buy homes and start there own business.

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The GI BIll was created in 1944, and was signed on June 22, 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt.



The GI Bill was created to avoid what happened to veterans in World War I. After World War I many veterans returned home to a recession, they were faced with unemployment. Which basically meant that they could not support themselves in any way, because many of them did not have a college education. The government felt as though the veterans deserved more than what they were given before, so they decided to create this bill, that would help them in as many ways as possible.

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= The GI bill had a large affect on the black community though it is hard to say weather the affect was negative or positive. Since most African Americans could not attend college in the 1940's either because of racism or poverty, the solution to getting a higher education was to join the army and receive a free college education. The U.S. army was strengthened by the bill, and blacks got a chance at higher education, but the sacrifice they had to take was the greatest sacrifice of all. =



Critics of the bill claimed that it was "unfair to other citizens". Since the government paid for these veterans tuition fees, they needed to get the money from somewhere. They then added subsidies into the peoples taxes and all revenue generated from those subsidies would go towards the GI bill.



The Post 9/11 GI Bill is an Act of Congress, which became a law on June 30th of 2008. The Bill provides financial support for education and housing to people with about 90 days of service on or after September 11th of 2001, or people discharged with a service-connected disability after 30 days. In order for Post-9/11 GI Bill to apply, you have to receive an honorable discharge. The Post-9/11 GI Bill became effective for training around August 1st of 2009. The amount of support that a person gets depends on where they live and what type of degree they are pursuing.

The original and the current are similar because they both give the discharged soldiers the education that they may need to make it back into the real world. But the difference is that the original gave the same amount of money to anyone who needed it while the current one gives out specific amounts of money to people due to where they live and the degree that they are aiming for.

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