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GI bill covered tuition for nearly a million post-9/11 veterans without tracking their progress

The Post-9/11 GI Bill has paid for nearly 1 million veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to go to school at a cost of about $30 billion since 2009, but the federal government has yet to document how many of those students graduated, much less whether they stayed in school. Neither the Department of […]

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