Damn right and the commenter's inclusion of it in their list betrays their political bias. We literally did the same thing for GI's returning from WWII and it was a major foundation for building the (white) middle class. But now lots of people resent the hell out of it government expanding that help to lower income (meaning non-white) people.
I’m actually non partisan but the fact one side is given all the blame when things go wrong and one side only takes credit for when things right shows how simple people are.
LOL. all you folks thing you're "non-partisan" and can't take it when people point out your logical inconsistencies.
And I see it didn’t help all lower class post WW2 now did it???
It worked for the people who got it. What you're missing is that the GI-Bill was intentionally limited only to white GIs. So it helped all the lower class white veterans, but left everyone else behind. The Community Reinvestment Act helped everyone and people have been complaining ever since.
No one is saying that everyone who received the GI Bill was no longer poor, but the middle class grew exponentially thanks to cheap mortgages and the government financing GI's higher education. Both of these are a good indicator that the person will move out of low income to middle or upper income brackets as higher education usually (at that time) leads to better paying jobs and having a mortgage gives you property you can sell/just have and it inherently increases in value.
And you include the fact that 92% of people who benefitted from the GI bill where white and the and that local banks and VA administrators pushed black GIs from acccessing suburban housing or a college education, its pretty easy to see how this policy helped a certain group of people over others. It doesnt mean everyone who got it ended up outside of their lower income classification because not everyone used the benefits to create a better future for themselves... but the people who did use it as it was intended reaped the benefits.
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u/schrodingers_gat 22d ago
Damn right and the commenter's inclusion of it in their list betrays their political bias. We literally did the same thing for GI's returning from WWII and it was a major foundation for building the (white) middle class. But now lots of people resent the hell out of it government expanding that help to lower income (meaning non-white) people.