GI Bill impacts N.C. State

University Wire;  October 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......RALEIGH, N.C. -- "Without the Montgomery GI Bill I would have had to take out a huge student...Act of 1944 (more commonly known as the GI Bill) on June 22, 1944. Providing approximately...families with $77 billion in benefits, the GI Bill has proved to be a success since its ...

Welfare Critics Should Look At the GI Bill

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 26, 1994 ;     539 words ......program this country ever devised: the GI Bill. I irritate the hell out of many of the...rush to tell me that they "earned" their GI Bill largess that enabled them to gain higher...first home. Many claiming to "earn" their GI Bill benefits never fired a shot in combat...

U. Wisconsin researcher delivers talk on GI Bill

University Wire;  November 30, 2006 ;     431 words ......Wisconsin researcher presented on how the GI Bill had an immediate effect on institutions...introduced more than 60 years ago. The GI Bill provides veterans with financial aid to...the lessons that can be learned from the GI Bill. According to Stransky, the GI Bill's...

GI Bill blessings, highway blues

The Boston Globe;  October 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...The GI Bill stands as a refutation of those who argue...documentaries airing tonight on WGBH-Ch. 2: "The GI Bill: The Law That Changed America" (9 p.m...American Life" (10 p.m.). The tone of "The GI Bill" is celebratory, befitting its status as...

Montgomery GI bill benefits improved

VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine;  February 1, 2003 ;     160 words ...washingtonwire News from VFW's Washington Office Beyond the limited form of...beneficiaries of the Montgomery GI Bill. The first, in Sec. 655 of...the option of transferring GI Bill benefits to family members...Reservists have to use their GI Bill benefits, which had ...

GI Bill Still Receiving Bravos After Five Decades

U.S. Newswire;  March 15, 1994 ;     620 words ...WASHINGTON, March 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The GI Bill, the program that has helped educate and...Montgomery, for whom the fourth and current GI Bill education assistance program in named...been immeasurably strengthened by the GI Bill." "The primary intention of today's GI...

Long After WWII, The GI Bill Lives On

The Washington Post;  May 30, 2004 ;     691 words ......yesterday, but for many veterans, the GI Bill is the enduring monument to that great...million Vietnam-era veterans have used the GI Bill for education and training. That snapshot...program in the Bronx and relied on the GI Bill to help cover expenses. "By then, I was...

Student veterans hurt by GI Bill's shrinking buying power

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......education is dramatically different. The GI Bill covered all of Carl Edgerly's college...even with the maximum $1,075 in monthly GI Bill benefits, he will be saddled with $50...Mason University. "The total amount of the GI Bill comes nowhere close to what I actually...

PELOSI: 'GI BILL OPENED THE DOOR TO THE MIDDLE CLASS FOR MILLIONS OF...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  June 22, 2004 ;     381 words ......Immediate Release June 22, 2004 Pelosi: 'GI Bill Opened the Door to the Middle Class for...Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the "GI Bill of Rights," which invested billions of...celebrate the 60th anniversary of the GI Bill of Rights and recall how after this generation...

GI BILL GAVE BOOST TO COLLEGE ENROLLMENT.(PEOPLE & PLACES)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  October 13, 2002 ;     364 words ......Writer The educational provisions of the GI Bill, which guaranteed vocational training...educational hobo jungles. Others feared the the GI Bill would be considered a handout that would...were college graduates. Because of the GI Bill, eventually one of four would be college...

SEN. DOMENICI BACKS BILL TO EXTEND GI BILL EDUCATION BENEFITS TO MILITARY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 30, 2008 ;     371 words ......military personnel to share their federal GI Bill education benefits with their family. The GI Bill Assistance Transferability Act of 2008 (S...men and women in uniform to transfer unused GI Bill educational funds to their spouses or children...

Proclamation on 50th Anniversary of GI Bill of Rights

U.S. Newswire;  June 22, 1994 ;     579 words ......proclamation on the 50th anniversary of the GI Bill of Rights: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GI BILL OF RIGHTS - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF...Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 -- "The GI Bill of Rights" -- described by many historians...

Veteran makes case for GI Bill reform

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  May 20, 2008 ;     531 words ......Sgt. Dan Parker is fighting for a new GI Bill. The 25-year-old veteran of deployments...Financial support through the existing GI Bill helped pave the way for Parker's education...Boyda, D-Kan., to express support for GI Bill reform legislation passed by the House...

GI Bill Improvements Recommended by American Legion

U.S. Newswire;  May 11, 2000 ;     331 words ......inducement to military service, the Montgomery GI Bill. The board of directors of the 2.8-million...a reform package designed to make the GI Bill more accessible to active-duty troops...schools; -- Allowing the veteran to use GI Bill payments to defray educational loans acquired...

GI Bill for Life

The Officer;  July 1, 2007 ;     593 words ......Column For more than six decades, the GI Bill has been a cornerstone to higher education...once they leave the military. But the GI Bill can do more. At a time of skyrocketing...expiration date that currently comes with GI Bill benefits. A simple program that changed...