G. I. Bill

The GI Bill of Rights, actually Servicemen 's Readjustment Act was enacted in 1944 to facilitate the serving in World War II U.S. soldiers reintegration into working life.

The law originally provided the following services:

  • A kind of unemployment benefit for a period of one year after discharge from the military service
  • Concessional loans to start your own business
  • University access for all war participants

In particular, the last point was very controversial in contemporary discussion. After he was enforced, began in the United States, the development of mass university today embossing, some universities tripled its student numbers from 1945 until 1948. The scheme also allowed veterans of the population who had previously had little access to university education, or from ethnic minorities studies. She had so profound, partly visible to this day influence on the American population structure.

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