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Article: GI Bill impacts N.C. State
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- October 21, 2004
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Cynthia Marvin
University Wire
10-21-2004
(Technician) (U-WIRE) RALEIGH, N.C. -- "Without the Montgomery GI Bill I would have had to take out a huge student loan and carry the burden of debt after I graduated," she said.
In fear of mass unemployment, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (more commonly known as the GI Bill) on June 22, 1944.
Providing approximately 21 million veterans, service members and their families with $77 billion in benefits, the GI Bill has proved to be a success since its creation.
"You don't often hear of law being loved, but this has to be the best-loved law, not to mention highly successful [law]," said Anna Dahlstein, ...