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The new G.I. bill is called the Montgomery G.I. Bill - and more commonly called the MGIB. There is much information to be found about the bill, and its two parts, the MGIB and the MGIB-SR (for Selected Reserve), on the G.I. bill website here.

A highlight of the new bill, on the website, says,

The Montgomery GI Bill provides up to 36 months of education benefits for college, business, technical, correspondence or vocational courses, apprenticeship or job training, or flight school. Participants can receive over $36,000 in tuition.

Whereas the old G.I. bill paid for a G.I.’s entire education.

The new G.I. bill offers less educational assistance than the old one, and does not offer the home-buying and business-starting options. It focuses more on job training and career placement, which gives less room for racism, than home placement.

The current G.I. bill is not as substantial as the G.I. bill of the 1950’s. The 1950’s bill targeted race, today’s bill targets social condition. Even though today race still seems tangled with social condition, the focus of the bill is what counts, and focusing on the latter is definitely a super idea. It is fair, because the poor are not provided with other ways to achieve economic success - any way around the hard road is fair. Even though the military is a hard road, at least it is another road. It gives the poor an opportunity to get an education, and economic benefits. Any opportunity is welcome. Even when it is tainted and twisted, full of catches and traps - even when it is the military.