Monday, March 09, 2015

When Colleges Use Veterans as Pawns

Kudos to the NYT editorial page for continuing to highlight the abuses of for-profit colleges:

For-profit colleges that burden students with crippling debt — often while giving them useless credentials in return — are luring veterans who receive G.I. Bill benefits to take advantage of a loophole in federal law. On the merits, a proposal in President Obama's 2016 budget that would close this destructive loophole deserves unanimous support in Congress. But because the for-profit industry has considerable power in Washington, veterans may be let down.


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