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GI Bill Dollars Flow to For-Profit Schools

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The World War II GI Bill sent millions of veterans to school and helped create the American middle class. But under the expanded 2008 GI Bill, billions of dollars are going to for-profit schools -- nearly two of every three dollars spent in California. And many veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan say those schools are leaving them with worthless degrees and few job prospects.

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