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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Eisenhower reduced veterans' college benefits in favor of expanding college access to low-income demographics in general, and this only after a period of marked abuse of the GI Bill by predatory for-profit colleges - something a bipartisan commission in Congress had been studying for half-a-decade at that point and concurred with the course of action chosen.